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Dedications | Eliza Haywood | EH
's tragedy Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh, dedicated to Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales
, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. It was published before the end of the month. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 2: 2, 1018 Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 312 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Celesia | Her father, David Mallet
, was well-known as a poet and dramatist. During Dorothea's childhood his career prospered; he was a friend of Pope
and an active member of the political opposition centred on the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
's father, the third Earl of Bute
, was a serious botanist and patron of science, and a keen amateur actor. He would have remained an obscure Scots peer, but for his chance acquaintance... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | Martin Madan had been born in the Caribbean, on the island of Nevis, where his family owned property, but had lived in England since infancy. He rose to be a colonel in the army... |
Literary Setting | Eliza Haywood | Its protagonist is a distant ancestor of George II's eldest son (freshly arrived in England and created Prince of Wales
), and its title is the same as that which he himself bore in Germany... |
Occupation | Anne Irwin | AI
travelled to Germany, appointed by Queen Caroline
to escort Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
to England to marry the Prince of Wales
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Eliza Haywood | |
politics | Eliza Haywood | Her biographer, Kathryn R. King
, gently but firmly demolishes Hayood's claim never to have written anything in a political way. King traces her relations at different times with dissident Whigs, disaffected Tories, crypto-Jacobites... |
Publishing | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Hertford later included poems of her own composition in her letters to Rowe
and to Lord Winchilsea
, widower of the poet Anne Finch
. She exchanged verse, too, with Frederick, Prince of Wales
... |
Textual Features | Jane Brereton | Each poem is headed by a picture, showing the thatched structure of Merlin's Cave and the stone-built royal hermitage respectively. The first poem, Merlin, is Humbly inscrib'd to Caroline
, Brereton, Jane. Merlin. Cave, 1735. title-page |
Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | Spedding rejects the dubious works: Vanelia; or, The Amours of the Great (a musical entertainment staged and printed in 1732) which mocks the Prince of Wales
whom EH
had flattered; and Mr. Taste. The Poetical... |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | Its full title was Remarks upon the Principles and Reasonings of Dr. Rutherforth
's Essay on the Nature and Obligations of Virtue: In Vindication of the contrary Principles and Reasonings, inforced in the Writings of... |
Textual Production | Grisell Murray | Few of GM
's letters survive, but in winter 1737-8 she was writing to her uncle Alexander, Earl of Marchmont
(the little brother Sandy of her memoir about her mother). Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 1822. 38 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood | She lavishly flatters the new Prince of Wales
. Prince Frederick (eldest son of the present king, George II, whom as Prince of Wales EH
had attacked) had grown up in Hanover. Once arrived in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | The first event she records was an ultimatum from the Prince of Wales
to his father, George II
, whom he enraged by demanding Walpole's removal. She describes how, after Walpole fell, power struggles among... |
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