Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret

GP shows here her interest in women writers, all of them letter-writers and commentators on the social scene. They are, apart from Anne Grant of Laggan, all noblewomen: Elizabeth Craven (later Lady Berkeley and later again Margravine of Anspach)

Frances Thynne, later Hertford, began letter-writing at an early age. She was eleven when her grandfather was glad to find her in an hopeful way of being a good scribe, and twelve when her...

During these years LMWM wrote her letters to Lady Pomfret .

Since a Lord Pomfret was prominent in the novel, she worried over it (and its title) and possible trouble from any existent Pomfret family. She appeared not to know of the existence of the eighteenth-century...

Frances, Countess of Hertford , exchanged letters, often on literary topics, with Lady Pomfret , who with her husband was living abroad for economy reasons.

The publisher Richard Phillips printed three small volumes of Correspondence between Frances, Countess of Hartford and Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret , between the Years 1738 and 1741.

The arrangements for publication had not been entirely smooth sailing. ML was insulted when Freemantle predicted that the book might make her £10. Freemantle was nevertheless instrumental in persuading her to publish and in...

This sought-after and taxing post (for noblewomen only) involved largely routine official duties, performed during spells of residence in the royal palaces. The annual salary was five hundred pounds; it was said that the expenses...

WMCN 's early and close relationship with her sister-in-law Mary, Countess of Traquair , née Maxwell, suffered vicissitudes over the years through her poverty and her husband's shameless requests for money. In 1718 the Traquairs...

LLH met the novelist Jane Barker before she became a nun, and after entering the convent she became acquainted with the autobiographer Catherine Holland . She was visited at her convent late in life...

Lady Hertford wrote that a certain distrust of her own judgement made her slow in the choice of a friend; but when that choice is made, my attachments are too strong to be easily broken...

She and Lady Pomfret (another amateur writer) together mourned for the death of Queen Caroline , who had been their admired friend as well as their employer.

EG refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard...

The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield