She says she never solicited for a place, though she wrote to the Princess on the death of Queen Anne.
Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864.
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Her post involved a week of constant waiting on the Princess followed by some...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ann Thicknesse
Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone
has been added to the...
Timeline
March 1694
The French poet Boileau
published his misogynist Satire X, which targets the poet Antoinette Deshoulières
(who had died in February) as a précieuse, and Scudéry
's Clélie as advocating adultery.
1758
Pierre-Joseph Boudier de Villemert
published, allegedly at Hamburg, a book called L'Ami des femmes, which remarked on the number and excellence of women writers in French.