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.
Stipple half-length engraving of a young Lady Rachel Russell by Henry Meyer after Samuel Cooper, published 1853. She is wearing a loose-fitting gown with wide sleeves, low round neckline, jewel at the bust and jewelled armband, and a mantle pinned behind. Her hair is swept back to a bun, except for a long curl hanging down her back.

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Textual Production Mary Chandler
Another poem by MC on the topic of choosing spinsterhood is A Letter to the Right Honourable, the Lady Russell written at her Ladyship's Desire, on the Conversation at Breakfast.
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49.
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This time the...
Textual Production Lydia Maria Child
In 1832 appeared The Biographies of Madame de Staël and Madame Roland and The Biographies of Lady Russell and Madame Guyon. The following year came Good Wives—which in later editions sometimes appeared as...
Textual Production Emma Marshall
She returned to literature (though she may not have thought of it as such) with In the Service of Rachel, Lady Russell , A Story, 1893, and with Penshurst Castle in the time of...
Textual Production Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
DSCS was close to her son-in-law, and continued a correspondence with him years after her daughter's death. Her letters to Halifax were published by Mary Berry in 1819, together with the letters of Lady Rachel Russell
Textual Production Mary Berry
 MB published a biography of Rachel Russell , wife of a Whig political martyr, which brought before the public a rich selection of Russell's unpublished letters, both trenchantly political and intimately personal.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
21 (1819): 558
Textual Production Isabella Neil Harwood
Elfinella, or, Home from Fairyland; Lord and Lady Russell, one of Isabella Harwood 's most popular volumes of plays, was published by Ellis and White , five months after it reached the stage.
Pall Mall Gazette. J. K. Sharpe, 1-57.
3468 (30 March 1876)
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria Callcott
MC opens her preface with a kind of apology for not being a mother herself. Her history is attentive to women, both public and private. Of her three chapters on Queen Elizabeth , she says,...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Isabella Neil Harwood
The second play in this volume, Lord and Lady Russell was met with much less interest than Elfinella. It is a historical drama set in the court of King Charles II . The despicable...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Ann Kelty
Her first subject is Princess Charlotte . After that MAK includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce , whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey , Lady Rachel Russell
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Camilla Crosland
In the preface she declares that she sought to simply set before the young women of the present day examples of wives and mothers who have done their duty under difficulties and temptations; and if...

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