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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Delany | Her uncle George Granville, Lord Lansdowne
, was a statesman under Queen Anne
, a distinguished amateur poet, and a friend of Alexander Pope
. To MD
's parents Lansdowne was the head of the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Trotter | Her mother, born Sarah Ballenden, was related to three separate Scots noble families. She brought up her daughters at first on an Admiralty pension (discontinued on Charles II
's death, restored by Queen Anne
)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Wesley | He reacted badly to SW
's implicit declaration of Jacobitism in late 1701 or soon afterwards. When she resisted what she saw as an oppressive move to deprive me of my little liberty of conscience... |
Dedications | Mary Pix | It was dedicated to Princess Anne
, whose favour MP
was later (when the princess had become the monarch) able to boast. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 414 |
Dedications | Judith Drake | The lengthy title lists the satirical sketches that the work contains. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Dedications | Elizabeth Elstob | |
Dedications | Mary Astell | MA
's philosophical second part to A Serious Proposal to the Ladies was published, again as by a Lover of her Sex, dedicated to Princess (later Queen) Anne
. Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors, XXVII: Mary Astell, 1666-1731”. The Book Collector, Vol. 10 , pp. 58-65. 62 |
Dedications | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Mary, Lady Chudleigh
, published, with her name (the Lady Chudleigh), Poems on Several Occasions, dedicated to Queen Anne
, with a further dedication To the Ladies. Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. Mary, Lady Chudleigh,. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Editor Ezell, Margaret J. M., Oxford University Press. 41 |
Dedications | Penelope Aubin | PA
published her first work: The Stuarts: A Pindarique Ode, dedicated to Queen Anne
. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
Dedications | Catharine Trotter | There was no author's name on the title-page, but the dedication was signed in full. It had opened about a month earlier (scholars differ over the precise date) at Congreve
's theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields |
Cultural formation | Mary Delany | Her parents, of the English gentry class, could each pride themselves on connections of historical and contemporary social eminence (she had an earl as an uncle); but after Queen Anne
's death they were disadvantaged... |
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