Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
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Cultural formation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She writes occasionally like an Anglican
, more often like a Deist or sceptic, and frequently as an anti-Catholic. In politics she was a pro-Robert Walpole
Whig. |
Dedications | Eliza Haywood | EH
dedicated to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
, a major critique, with her name, of Sir Robert Walpole
's Prime Ministership: the satirical fiction Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 347-50 Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915. 177 Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction”. Adventures of Eovaai, edited by Earla Wilputte, Broadview, 1999, pp. 7-40. 45n1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | CM
's father, John Sawbridge, was a landowner, and in politics an anti-Walpole
Whig. After his wife's death he retired to a secluded life. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 7, 8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Horace Walpole | He was the youngest son of statesman Sir Robert Walpole
, though rumour said he was actually fathered by Carr, Lord Hervey
(a son of the Earl of Bristol), who died as a young man. |
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... |
Occupation | Eliza Haywood | This was Fielding's last production. Next day Sir Robert Walpole
introduced into parliament
the Licensing Act
, which killed this company and EH
's stage career. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993. |
Occupation | Philip Dormer Stanhope fourth Earl of Chesterfield | From the age of twenty he held a positon at Court and a seat in Parliament
. After becoming an earl he served in the Privy Council
and as British ambassador at The Hague... |
Other Life Event | Mary Barber | Charged with scandalising and vilifying the king and government (George II
and Sir Robert Walpole
), she was out on bail on 2 February. The accusation (for which the penalty ranged from a fine... |
politics | Eliza Haywood | |
politics | Mary Caesar | By this time his former Jacobite associates were treating him with some suspicion because they feared that financial need was causing him to curry favour with Robert Walpole
's government. Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. 1970, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) |
politics | Mary Chandler | MC
was never oppositional in her politics. She supported the Hanoverian monarchy and made no mention, either laudatory or critical, of the government of Sir Robert Walpole
. Shuttleton, David. “Mary Chandlers Description of Bath (1733): the poetic topographies of an Augustan tradeswoman”. Womens Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 3, 2000, pp. 447-67. 451 |
politics | Mary Countess Cowper | The Whig party underwent various travails during MCC
's time in politics. In December 1716 and April 1717, when Lord Townshend
(brother-in-law of Robert Walpole
) was dismissed first from one and then from another... |
politics | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | A British ship had, said the Genoese, violated their neutrality by firing on a small boat suspected of being a smuggler. Each side took hostages, and the affair escalated. Lady Mary mobilised her contacts and... |
politics | Mary Delany | Their object was to embarrass Sir Robert Walpole
's government, which had closed the visitors' gallery for a crucial debate over going to war with Spain. They besieged the gallery until admitted, then barracked the... |
Publishing | Mary Barber | He concluded, let Mrs Howard
know that I recommend you to the Queen
, qtd. in Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol. xviii , 1999, pp. 155-74. 170 |
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