Hervey, Elizabeth, 1748 - 1820. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. vii - xxii.
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John Baron Hervey
Standard Name: Hervey, John,,, Baron
Used Form: Lord Hervey
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Hervey | They were married at St George's, Hanover Square, London. He was the natural son of Thomas Hervey, who in turn was one of the eight children of John, Lord Hervey
. Beckford, William. Life at Fonthill, 1807-1822, with Interludes in Paris and London. Editor Alexander, Boyd, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. 202n2 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She now sought the friendship of those in political power, like James Craggs
, Charlotte Clayton
, and members of the royal family. But she was closest to outsiders like Lady Stafford
(an almost certainly... |
| Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
| Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace, a satiric attack on and riposte to Pope
which was probably composed by LMWM
and Lord Hervey
, appeared in two separate, anonymous, folio editions. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993. 265 |
| Textual Features | Margery Lawrence | The poetry included in this volume ranges widely in subject, with topics such as games played in the nursery, first love, courtship, love-letters, and lost love. The volume also includes verses on World War One... |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | The Family Miscellany, collected and transcribed by JCM
's brother Ashley Cowper
, dated 1747 and now British Library
MS Add. 28,101, includes plenty of poems by Ashley himself and plenty more ascribed to... |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts
, and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd
. Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered... |
Timeline
18 May 1725: Lord Hervey remarked hyperbolically on the...
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18 May 1725
Lord Hervey
remarked hyperbolically on the terminal decay of marriage as an institution among the upper classes.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
231n34
1728: Lord Hervey later expressed the view that...
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1728
Lord Hervey
later expressed the view that by this date the Christian religion was so exploded in England that upper-class men and women were ashamed to admit to believing.
Hervey, John, Baron. Some Materials towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II. Editor Sedgwick, Romney, AMS Press, 1970, 3 vols.
1: 92
Texts
Hervey, John, Baron. Some Materials towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II. Editor Sedgwick, Romney, AMS Press, 1970, 3 vols.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, and John, Baron Hervey. Verses Address’d to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace. Equal 1st, James Roberts, 112 ll., folio.