Lady Rachel Russell
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Standard Name: Russell, Lady Rachel
Birth Name: Rachel Wriothesley
Styled: Lady Rachel Wriothesley
Married Name: Rachel Vaughan
Titled: Rachel, Lady Vaughan
Married Name: Rachel Russell
Titled: Rachel, Lady Russell
Indexed Name: Lady Rachel Russell
The reputation of LRR
's letters sprang at first from her husband's political fame, but she was a letter-writer of high quality in her own right. Surviving letters probably represent only a fraction of those she wrote. Like many intelligent women of her time and rank, she used writing not only to communicate with relations and friends, but also privately, to shape her religious practice and her sense of her own life. She left diaries, essays, a catechism, and Instructions for Children.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | This diarist, JCM
's paternal grandmother, Sarah, Lady Cowper
, was an extraordinary woman. Born into the wealthy merchant class, deeply pious, highly intelligent and well-read, she consoled herself for an unhappy marriage to an... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Lady Cowper | SLC
brought to the social rituals of visiting some of the same suspicious stance with which she viewed her relations. I visit Some people for the Same Causes as the Indians Worship the Devil, least... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | Women, says ES
, must be essentially equal with men since both are made in God's image. But women's existing social position Strutt, Elizabeth. The Feminine Soul. J. S. Hodson, 1857. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucy Aikin | LA
's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ham | The story opens with the young Englishwoman Rhoda Ford (the unbeautiful one of two sisters) and her family in the west of Ireland, where her father has an entrepreneurial scheme. They try to come... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Cassandra Cooke | Other events follow the ending of the inset tale. Dr Scot is involved in a hush-hush mission with General Monck
, facilitating the Restoration of Charles II
. The story cannot end until the title... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Lady Cowper | |
Occupation | Henrietta Battier | HB
acted at Drury Lane Theatre
in the role of Lady Rachel Russell
in Thomas Stratford
's tragedy on the death of Lord Russell
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. |
Textual Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | The second part opens with quotations from Cicero
and Voltaire
. Rowden, Frances Arabella. The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem. 1810. 47 Rowden, Frances Arabella. The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem. 1810. 63 |
Textual Features | Clara Balfour | A chapter which discusses moral heroism . . . in the female character Balfour, Clara. Moral Heroism; or, The Trials and Triumphs of the Great and Good. Houlston and Stoneman, 1846. prelims |
Textual Features | Isabella Neil Harwood | In the play Lord Russell is first seen as he hears the news that the King has dissolved the parliament: he has Quite broken with his people, and to govern / Must needs oppress them... |
Textual Features | Lydia Maria Child | LMC
's first four subjects were all known for their writings and for their resistance to tyrannical authority, either political or religious, but she is more interested here in what she alleges to have been... |
Textual Features | Cassandra Cooke | The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation, Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn, 1799, 2 vols. 1: 1 |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | The many pictures in the volume include diagrams of the hold of a slave ship, I & Dash my Dog (a sketch), and prints of Hester Mulso Chapone
, Lady Rachel Russell
(with a copy... |
Textual Features | Mary Tighe | MT
mentions her anguish Tighe, Mary. Keats and Mary Tighe. Editor Weller, Earle Vonard, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966. 308 Tighe, Mary. Keats and Mary Tighe. Editor Weller, Earle Vonard, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966. 308 |
Timeline
22 March 1683: A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket...
National or international item
22 March 1683
A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket preserved the lives of Charles II
and his brother
; by leaving early for London they avoided a planned assassination.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
300-1
13 July 1683: William, Lord Russell (husband of the letter-writer...
National or international item
13 July 1683
William, Lord Russell
(husband of the letter-writer Lady Rachel
), stood trial for High Treason, accused of planning to assassinate the king
in an alleged Protestant Plot.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
747-8
21 July 1683: William, Lord Russell, husband of the letter-writer...
National or international item
21 July 1683
William, Lord Russell
, husband of the letter-writer Lady Rachel Russell
, was beheaded in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
750, 761
7 December 1683: Months after the execution of William, Lord...
National or international item
7 December 1683
Months after the execution of William, Lord Russell
(husband of Lady Rachel
), Algernon Sidney
met the same fate (after a search of his private papers), charged with Protestant extremism and plotting against the crown.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Texts
Russell, Lady Rachel. Letters of Lady Rachel Russell. Editor Sellwood, Thomas, E. and C. Dilly, 1773.
Russell, Lady Rachel, and William, Lord Russell. Letters of Lady Rachel Russell. Editor Sellwood, Thomas, 5th ed., J. Mawman, 1801.
Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.