Teresia Constantia Phillips

02 January 1709 - 02 February 1765

Standard Name: Phillips, Teresia Constantia

Birth Name: Teresia Constantia Phillips

Nickname: Con

Married Name: Teresia Constantia Delafield

Married Name: Teresia Constantia Muilman

Married Name: Teresia Constantia Montgomery

Married Name: Teresia Constantia Callendar

Married Name: Teresia Constantia de Lantagnac

Used Form: T. C. Phillips

TCP is one of the best-known of the courtesan memoirists of the eighteenth century, though it is still not unanimously agreed that she wrote her own text. Her letter to Chesterfield qualifies her as a feminist. While in Jamaica she turned to writing comment on local politics, some of it in verse.

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Anthologization	Elizabeth Sarah Gooch	The favourable reception of her first work, says ESG , has emboldened her to embark on this fuller account of her life, although the writing of it has been painful and she does not expect...
Literary responses	Harriette Wilson	Contemporary admirers of HW on literary grounds included Walter Scott , who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton. 218 a better writer than Teresia Constantia Phillips or others in the...
Literary responses	Sarah Fielding	The book's admirers included (perhaps embarrassingly) the courtesan Teresia Constantia Phillips , who praised it in her Memoirs. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 72 Jane Collier in her commonplace-book not only noted that Mrs Teachum has the Swift ian...
Reception	Laetitia Pilkington	MP's work was controversial from the beginning. It became the topic of newspaper paragraphs and of pamphlets. Several answers to it seem to have been written by Matthew Pilkington , and one answer to him...
Textual Production	Sarah Chapone	Remarks on Mrs. Muilman's Letter to the . . . Earl of Chesterfield, by a Lady, appeared, addressing the courtesan memoirist T. C. Phillips and now known to be by SC . British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. London Magazine. C. Ackers. (September 1750): 432
Textual Production	Charlotte Charke	CC published in instalments A Narrative of her life, which she said she had begun writing about five years earlier. This kind of serialisation, in a series of pamphlets rather than normal-sized volumes, had been...
Violence	Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield	It is now known that Philip Stanhope was not, as was long believed, the Thomas Grimes who brutally raped the thirteen-year-old Teresia Constantia Phillips on 17 November 1721. Phillips, Teresia Constantia. An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips. Printed for the author. 1: 63-5 Thompson, Lynda M. The "Scandalous Memoirists". Manchester University Press. 46-53

Timeline

By November 1750

Robert Dodsley issued his successful work of homespun philosophy, The Oeconomy of Human Life, whose title-page announced it as translated from an Indian manuscript.

By March 1751

Tobias Smollett published his novelThe Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.

Texts

Phillips, Teresia Constantia. A Letter Humbly Address’d to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield. Printed for the author, 1750.

Phillips, Teresia Constantia. An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips. Printed for the author, 1749.

Phillips, Teresia Constantia. An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips. Printed for the author, 1750.

Phillips, Teresia Constantia. An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips. G. Smith, 1761.