Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships | W. H. Auden | Nicholas Jenkins
of Stanford University
formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Calderwood | MC
's brother, another James Steuart
, was educated at school and university and on the Grand Tour. He married Lady Frances Wemyss
in 1743, and two years later, because she was ill with smallpox... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | Soon afterwards Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, appropriating her voice in Miss Cooper to —, makes the unmarried Judith Cowper express a tormented love for Lysander, who in this poem is uncaring and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Irwin | Nearly a decade after his death Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
addressed to the widow an poetic argument against infidelity so jaunty as to suggest she did not think him a husband worth mourning. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press. 257-8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Tweedsmuir | Through her mother ST
was descended from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. She was happy to claim Lady Mary as an ancestress, but did not pay her particularly close attention: she was mistaken in 1952... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Her mother, born Mary Gilbert
, from a gentry family in Hertfordshire, was her father's second wife, married more than twenty years after the death of his first. (That first wife, the beautiful, scholarly, fourteen-year-old... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | AO
accepted a proposal of marriage from a nobleman, Lord Herbert Stuart
; but she later broke off the engagement. Stuart, the second son of the fourth Earl (later the first Marquess) of Bute, was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Louisa Stuart | It gave LLS
some trouble as a child that her grandmother was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
: I am sure I heartily hated her name. Whatever I wanted to learn, everybody was up in arms... |
Friends, Associates | Jonathan Swift | Swift helped and befriended a number of women writers. He was a patron of Mary Barber
, Constantia Grierson
, an unidentified Mrs Sican
, Mary Davys
, and Laetitia Pilkington
, a colleague of... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Astell | Elizabeth Hutcheson
(an associate of nonjuring devotional writer William Law
, as was Hastings) later became MA
's executor. Her friendship with Lady Chudleigh
was conducted largely by letter, since Chudleigh lived in Devon. Astell... |
Friends, Associates | Grisell Murray | At almost every stage of GM
's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She... |
Friends, Associates | Judith Cowper Madan | The poems that Judith Cowper wrote as an unmarried young woman suggest that she moved easily both in court and in literary circles. She probably met the poet Alexander Pope
in Jervas
's studio. Pope... |
Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | Pope's relationships with women, particularly women who wrote, tended to be complicated and turbulent. They have been ably studied by scholar Valerie Rumbold
. Contrary to rumour, he apparently liked and respected Anne Finch
... |
Friends, Associates | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | WMCN
's early and close relationship with her sister-in-law Mary, Countess of Traquair
, née Maxwell, suffered vicissitudes over the years through her poverty and her husband's shameless requests for money. In 1718 the Traquairs... |
Friends, Associates | William Congreve | As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden
. He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club
, and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining... |
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