Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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death | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana's son and heir
had her body brought back to England for burial with the rest of the family. |
Dedications | Mary Russell Mitford | Banned for the licensed theatres, the play was accepted for the Victoria Theatre, on the south bank of the Thames, outside the Lord Chamberlain's jurisdiction. MRM
worked immensely hard over the production: it was, she... |
Dedications | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | She was working on the research for this novel before she married; the work was interrupted by her father's death in May 1812. After it she wrote: He was the object for which I laboured... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, bore the son
and heir she had so long desired—in melodramatic circumstances, at Passy just outside revolutionary Paris. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998. 244 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | Among her cousins both legitimate and illegitimate, she was closest to the son of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire: the Marquess of Hartington
, known as Hart, who later succeeded as the sixth duke. From... |
Literary responses | Mary Berry | Before publication, the Duke of Devonshire
feared that the letters themselves would have not enough to interest the public without MB
's editorial contribution. John Whishaw
, whom she more than once consulted, saw their... |
Occupation | Matilda Hays | |
politics | Lady Caroline Lamb | Like her birth family, LCL
strongly supported a Whig and reformist political agenda. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 85 qtd. in Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 86 |
Publishing | Louisa Stuart Costello | The text is accompanied by engravings done by LSC
from portraits in the Duke of Devonshire
's collection. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Costello, Louisa Stuart. Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen. Cambridge University Press, 2010, 4 vols., http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR. |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | Colman observed unctuously that the story was impossible for the stage, the historical facts carrying a sort of fatal morbidity. He pointed out that the theatres which were darkened annually on the anniversary of this... |
Textual Production | Mary Berry | She had been invited to edit and publish these letters by their current owner, the Duke of Devonshire
(to whose sisters she was particularly close). At first this work made an intellectual occupation for her... |
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