She addressed the poem as an epistle, probably to her uncle William Feilding
; her recent editors follow her manuscript in titling it Constantinople To [William Feilding]. It was picked up for printing by...
Stories about her early affairs with Anthony Hammond
and George Farquhar
probably arose from a desire to link her name with those of high-profile and romantic men.
Friends, Associates
Susanna Centlivre
In the 1720s she belonged to an informal literary club which included Anthony Hammond
(with whom she was supposed to have had her most youthful liaison), Ambrose Philips
, Martha Fowke
, and Eliza Haywood
.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
229-30
Publishing
Judith Cowper Madan
Pattison died of smallpox in July this year, aged about twenty-one.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.