Elizabeth, known during childhood as Lady Betty Seymour, lived to become a duchess, and the guardian and hander-on of her family's cultural inheritance. She married Sir Hugh Smithson (who then took her grandmother's birthname of Percy
Dedications
Maria Barrell
This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior
on the title-page.
Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats.
prelims
The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...
Timeline
September 1770: It was rumoured that the Duke and Duchess...
Building item
September 1770
It was rumoured that the Duke
and Duchess of Northumberland
planned to hold not one but two Public Days a week.
The duchess was a letter-writer of note; her mother, as Lady Hertford
, had...
