Her friend Edward Gibbon told his father he was extremely pleased with Pietro Paolo Celesia: he has wit and learning, and speaks French like a Parisian.
Gibbon, Edward. Letters. Editor Norton, J. E., Cassell and Company, 1956, 3 vols.
1: 115
Celesia's appointment as ambassador dated from 1755...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
Their children's education provided opportunities to Lord and Lady Craven to act as literary patrons. In 1778, at the suggestion of Elizabeth Montagu
, Elizabeth Craven took on as governess the writer Madame Vaucluse (...
Publishing
Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
The Gentleman's Magazine printed a poem entitled Lady Craven, on dreaming she saw her Heart at her Feet, which, it said, was variously ascribed to Craven herself (later Margravine of Anspach)
or to Madame Vaucluse
Textual Production
Dorothea Celesia
According to Marianne-Agnès de Falques de Vaucluse
(a prejudiced witness), DC
had written 5,000 lines of poetry before she was married, half of it produced before the age of reason.
qtd. in
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.