Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
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Textual Features | Lucille Iremonger | Her opening chapter addresses her own experience, with heartfelt reminiscence about the impact of political campaigning on married life. She sets out to combat the view of the candidate's (later the member's) wife either as... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Harcourt | MH
and her husband
subscribed in 1803 to Poems by the widowed Mrs George Sewell (Mary Sewell)
. Other subscribers included Elizabeth Carter
, Elizabeth Cobbold
, Catherine Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Arabella Rowden |
Textual Production | Catherine Gore | |
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... |
politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, appeared on the hustings with Charles James Fox
, parliamentary candidate for Westminster, and publicly kissed him. Parliament had been dissolved on 1 September; after the elections, the new... |
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 |
politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, again supporting Charles James Fox
in his election campaign, was credited as author of his victory. Foreman, Amanda. “A politician’s politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the Whig party”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, pp. 179-04. 184-7 Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press. 242ff |
Textual Production | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, composed for the Duke of Bedford
a poem in praise of Charles James Fox
to be displayed in a temple of Whiggish friendship at Bedford's Woburn estate. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 371 |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany
, Elizabeth Montagu
, and Samuel Johnson
. From 1777 she... |
politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | The significance of her political activity has only recently been appreciated. Historians have tended to see her as a dilettante, a great lady amusing herself. The originality and the effectiveness of her forays into the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | It was generally assumed from Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
's close political association with Charles James Fox
that she was his mistress. If they did indeed have an affair, it was the result, not the... |
Other Life Event | Grace Elliott | GE
was arrested at her house in Paris, for possessing a letter addressed to Charles James Fox
, which had been sent to her by Sir Godfrey Webster
from Naples, in hopes that she... |
politics | Anne Damer | AD
was a Fox
ite Whig, who helped her friend the Duchess of Devonshire
in her campaign for Fox in the famous election of May 1784. She later championed |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
Characters | Anne Damer | The novel, told in a fairly low-pressure third-person narrative, traces the lives and courtships of Lord Belmour and his sister Lady Caroline. Their father, the Earl of Delavere, has a house in London and a... |
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