John Duncombe

Standard Name: Duncombe, John

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Friends, Associates Mehetabel Wright
Either now or later she met the writer John Duncombe and painter Joseph Highmore , as well as the novelist Samuel Richardson .
Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, pp. 15-38.
17, 27
Family and Intimate relationships Mehetabel Wright
MW was accompanied to her new home at Louth in Lincolnshire by her sympathetic sister Mary. Her marriage only part-reconciled her to her parents; they thought her penitence insufficient. She said her husband was a...
Literary responses Mehetabel Wright
John Duncombe must have had the Gentleman's Magazine poems in mind when he praised MW in his Feminiad, 1754.

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