Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz, 1974.
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Cultural formation | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Her mother was of Welsh and her father of English descent. There was no basis for the family belief that the distinguished seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish churchman Gilbert Burnet
was an ancestor. Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz, 1974. 15-17, 35 |
death | John Wilmot second Earl of Rochester | John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
, poet and libertine, died worn out at not much past thirty, after a death-bed conversion orchestrated and subsequently publicised by Gilbert Burnet
(later Bishop of Salisbury). Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954. 448 |
death | Elizabeth Burnet | She was buried with her first husband
, because of a promise made long before her death. Gilbert Burnet
died on 17 March 1715. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Gilbert Burnet |
Education | Anne Grant | Nevertheless she writes that at about eight she was quite uneducated, except reading and plain-work. Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808, 2 vols. 2: 144 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Burnet | Elizabeth Berkeley
became the third wife of Gilbert Burnet
, Scottish scholar, politician, historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. She was thirty-nine, he fifty-seven. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Fictionalization | Aphra Behn | AB
has been repeatedly fictionalised in recent years. Ross Laidlaw
published in 1992 a fiction, Aphra Behn—Dispatch'd from Athole, which added a coda to her life. In his story Gilbert Burnet
enlists her to... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Wharton | AW
corresponded with Gilbert Burnet
, who had converted Rochester on his deathbed. They exchanged poems and discussed religion; Burnet perhaps saw her as another soul to be saved. |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Trotter | During her London years she was an ally of Damaris Masham
, but quarrelled with Delarivier Manley
. She found both a patron and a friend in Sarah, Lady Piers
(who wrote poetry herself). She... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Rachel Russell | Friends of her later years included Dr Fitzwilliam
and Gilbert Burnet
. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
's friendship with Sarah Churchill, later Duchess of Marlborough
(like that with her future husband, Gilbert Burnet
, and his second wife, Mary
), dated back to the years when they were all in... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Lady Cowper | SLC
brought to the social rituals of visiting some of the same suspicious stance with which she viewed her relations. I visit Some people for the Same Causes as the Indians Worship the Devil, least... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Wharton | Gilbert Burnet
wrote to AW
for the first time; she had consulted him over her religious doubts. Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124. 77-8 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Wharton | AW
wrote angrily to Burnet
, who had sent her counsel and reproof on hearing (falsely) that she was parting from her husband. Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124. 79-80 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Grant | Her range of curiosity of wide. Of orthodox Jews she writes, Is not priestcraft the same in all climes, in all ages, in all forms of worship? Grant, Elizabeth. The Highland Lady in Ireland. Editors Pelly, Patricia and Andrew Tod, Canongate, 1991. 96 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia Hume | Satires on women, she says, are enough, one would imagine, to make the hardest Forehead blush. qtd. in Hume, Sophia. An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina. William Bradford, 1747. 44 |