Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Philip Thicknesse
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Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Barrell | Her husband was the elder James Mackittrick Adair (1728-1801). He had practised as a physician in Antigua and was one of the many enemies of Philip Thicknesse
. His first wife was named Anne Barter... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Thicknesse | Ann Ford
married (at Felixstowe in Suffolk, as his third wife) the writer, entrepreneur, adventurer, and laudanum addict Philip Thicknesse
, whose second wife, Lady Elizabeth, had been a good friend of hers and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Thicknesse | AT
's husband Philip Thicknesse
suffered a seizure and died in a travelling carriage on the road near Boulogne in France. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Philip Thicknesse |
Publishing | Ann Thicknesse | The first volume has a frontispiece portrait of AT
, and the second has a companion piece of her late husband
. Garside, Peter, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000. 2: 125 Thicknesse, Ann. The School for Fashion. Reynell, Debrett and Fores, and Robinson, 1800. 1: vi |
Textual Features | Ann Thicknesse | Mr Tudor in this text is of course based on AT
's husband Philip
. He first appears as the husband of Lady Elizabeth, who was as remarkable for his sense and penetration, as he... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Thicknesse | After this AT
says she will follow the example of some of her French authors and introduce her own person into her work, to tell the story of a slight thrown upon the first object... |
Wealth and Poverty | Ann Thicknesse | The Thicknesse family's relation to money was also unstable. The house at Quoit was bought with a legacy left to AT
; the fashionable house in the Crescent at Bath was sold for two thousand... |
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