Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford

Standard Name: Orford, Robert Walpole,,, first Earl of
Used Form: Sir Robert Walpole

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Textual Features Mary, Countess Cowper
Of a journey by water from Hampton Court in Middlesex to London on a wonderfully fine October day, she writes: Nothing in the World could be pleasanter than the Passage, nor give One a better...
Textual Features Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville on the pains of sensibility.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire,. Emma. T. Hookham.
1: 66
She and her father kneel alternately to each other when she...
Textual Features Sarah Green
SG 's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day,
Green, Sarah. The Reformist!!! A Serio-Comic Political Novel. Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co.
1: i
whether in religion, politics...
Textual Production Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Frances, Lady Hertford , kept a fragmentary political journal coinciding with the end of Robert Walpole 's long tenure of power as Prime Minister.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan.
182
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
After the death of Queen Caroline , EB addressed a poem on this event to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole : The Vision; or, The Royal Mourners, A Poem.
Boyd, Elizabeth. The Vision; or, The Royal Mourners.
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
Curll had already twice attempted to cash in on DM 's success: first with The New Atalantis for the Year 1713 and then in early 1715 by advertising The German Atalantis. Written by a Lady...
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.
38
She offered him shrewd...
Textual Production Laetitia Pilkington
LP published a second pamphlet, the ironically-titled An Apology for the Minister.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Haywood
The author deliberately confuses her or his identity: a fictional correspondent cites contradictory opinions as to whether it is EH , or some other daughter of Behn or Manley , or a man dissimulating his...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Boyd
This poem opens, with Boyd's typical energy and oddity, on a gloomy evening with fog, gales, rain, skies ablaze with meteors, and ravens (perhaps the symbolic ones from the Tower of London) behaving oddly...

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