Frederick Augustus Hervey fourth Earl of Bristol
Standard Name: Bristol, Frederick Augustus Hervey,,, fourth Earl of
Connections
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Dedications | Anna Maria Porter | The first volume had a frontispiece designed by AMP
's brother R. K. Porter
. The epigraph came from the introduction to Gay
's Fables (1727) : From objects most minute and mean, / A... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Her father, Frederick Augustus Hervey, later Earl of Bristol
, entered the Church as a younger son, and rose to be Bishop of Derry. He is known to history as the earl-bishop, a... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Yearsley | |
Publishing | Ann Yearsley | As early as March-April 1788 AY
's backers Eliza Dawson
and Wilmer Gossip
were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at... |
Reception | Ann Yearsley | Again one of Yearsley's most perceptive readers was Anna Seward
, who wrote to Helen Maria Williams
on Christmas Day 1787 that Yearsley and Burns
were both miracles . . . . Perhaps she has... |
Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | During the time she was preparing these poems for publication, Yearsley equipped herself with a new team of patrons: Wilmer Gossip
, a Yorkshire landowner with poor health, who was given to spending time at... |
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