Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Henry Colburn.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Miller | Her mother, born Margaret Pigott
, came from a long-established Shropshire family and probably had literary interests, since she was a member of the circle of independent-minded women formed around Sarah Scott
and Lady Barbara Montagu |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Elizabeth wrote years later that her mother, Lady Berkeley, born Elizabeth Drax
, had in general no love for children. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Henry Colburn. 1: 7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Her father, Henry Seymour Conway
, was an army officer who rose to be Field-Marshal. His distinguished military career was matched by his services to Whig politics. His literary interests made him a friend of... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The literary society of ALB
's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 80 |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Her later friendships often blended the personal with the political, like those with Beilby Porteus
(Bishop of London from 1787, where she met him) and the abolitionists William Wilberforce
(met at Bath the same year)... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Damer | AD
's wide circle of friends included Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Lady Melbourne
, Joanna Baillie
, Sarah Siddons
, the Berrysisters
, the dramatist Lady Elizabeth Craven (formerly Berkeley, later Margravine of Anspach) |
Friends, Associates | Frances Brooke | FB
's friendship with Woffington led to her meeting Peg's sister Polly
, who became her lifelong friend. Eight years older than Brooke, Polly Woffington was a close friend of Samuel Johnson
, Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | She was an ornament of high society and sought out literary friends. She was, for instance, a long-term friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole
, who published her writings on his private press at Strawberry Hill |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Gray | Walpole
, son of the Prime Minister, had an ample allowance, as the middle-class Gray did not. Walpole was a socialite who delighted in the pleasures of Italy, and Gray felt neglected. Their subsequent estrangement... |
Instructor | Anne Damer | AD
's mastery of Latin and her respectable knowledge of Greek were self-acquired, though Horace Walpole
had a hand in her education. She studied sculpture from childhood, being taught by Giuseppe Ceracchi
, John Bacon |
Intertextuality and Influence | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | The story is set in late feudal times, and the action carried by male characters, while women are insignificant. Nevertheless several of its themes, like unjust exclusion from succession or inheritance, lend themselves readily to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)... |
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