Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press.
150-1
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | GE
bore a daughter, Georgina or Georgiana
, whose paternity was variously ascribed to several of her lovers (including the Prince of Wales
, with whom she had broken up some months before the birth)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | In her earliest years in Paris she was the mistress first of the comte d'Artois (who much later reigned as Charles X
) and then of the duc de Chartres (later duc d'Orléans
, later... |
Wealth and Poverty | Grace Elliott | She needed to visit London to press for payment of the annuity promised her by the Prince of Wales
: three hundred and fifty pounds a year, paid quarterly, on the condition of her living... |
Friends, Associates | Grace Elliott | She had renewed her acquaintance with the prince
, according to the account in notes to her published journal. Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press. 150-1 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | Eliza and John Fenwick were close friends of Maria Reveley
, her first husband the architect Willey Reveley
, and their son the architect and engineer Henry Willey Reveley
. (Their son was a playmate... |
politics | Eliza Fletcher | EF
took the side of Queen Caroline in the persecutions of her trial. Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Mary, Lady Richardson, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation. 128 |
Leisure and Society | Georgiana Fullerton | The Leveson-Gower family moved in exclusive social circles, and Fullerton recalled in her unfinished memoir that she regularly attended the Children's Ball at Carlton House (residence of the Prince Regent), and on one occasion, while... |
politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, was instrumental in saving Fox
's ministry during a crisis over the finances of the Prince of Wales
. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 118-19 |
Reception | Catherine Gore | George IV
is supposed to have called this the best bred and most amusing novel published in his remembrance. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Arkansas. 114 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Gore | Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales
and his mistress Lady Jersey
downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox
, apostrophised as one of the great and... |
Textual Features | Catherine Gore | She quotes Byron
on the title-page. Gore, Catherine. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb. R. Bentley. title-page |
Reception | Anne Grant | AG
was offered an annual pension of £100 from George IV
, in recognition of her literary efforts. Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, p. ix - xxxvi. xxviii |
Textual Production | Sarah Green | Mary O'Brien
seems to have a good claim, since her The Political Monitor; or Regent
's Friend. Being a collection of poems published in England during the agitation of the regency: consisting of curious, interesting... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Green | |
Publishing | Martha Hale | Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, her daughter the Countess of Carlisle
, Charles Burney
, Warren Hastings
, Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble) |
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