George Savile Marquess of Halifax

Standard Name: Halifax, George Savile,,, Marquess of
Used Form: Lord Halifax

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
Lord Halifax preserved DSCS 's letters to him until his death, after which they passed to his descendants, the dukes of Devonshire.
Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.
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Textual Production Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
DSCS 's first surviving letter to Lord Halifax (the husband, later the widower, of her daughter) was supposedly written on behalf of her son Lord Sunderland.
Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.
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Textual Production Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
Most of DSCS 's extant writings are letters, dated 1679-80, which she wrote to her brother Henry Sidney and her son-in-law, George Savile, Marquess of Halifax . These were eventful years, with war in progress...
Textual Production Anne-Thérèse de Lambert
The letters to both children were probably written in the last decade of the seventeenth century, and were said to be influenced by the writings of Louis Silvestre de Sacy . The translator into English...

Timeline

January 1688: Lord Halifax published The Lady's New-Year's...

Building item

January 1688

Lord Halifax published The Lady's New-Year's Gift; or, Advice to a Daughter (generally known by its subtitle), which long remained popular as advice-literature.
Halifax, George Savile, Marquess of. Complete Works. Editor Kenyon, John Philipps, Penguin, 1969.
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Texts

Halifax, George Savile, Marquess of. Complete Works. Editor Kenyon, John Philipps, Penguin, 1969.
Savile, Henry, and George Savile, Marquess of Halifax. Savile correspondence. Editor Cooper, William Durrant, Printed for the Camden Society, 1858.