Watkins, Louise. “Selina Davenport”. Corvey ’Adopt an Author’.
Richard Alfred Davenport
Standard Name: Davenport, Richard Alfred
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hester Mulso Chapone | The shock was terrible to her; her long-continued grief and mourning would be thought by many people exaggerated. There were rumours that she had not been happy in her marriage. These were vigorously denied by... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | Selina Granville Wheler
, aged twenty-one, was married at Lambeth in south London to a writer named Richard Alfred Davenport
. It was, supposedly, to disoblige Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | Richard Alfred Davenport
, long-estranged husband of SD
, was found near death from laudanum at his home, Brunswick Cottage in Camberwell. The coroner's jury compassionately ruled that the overdose was accidental. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Richard Alfred Davenport |
| Wealth and Poverty | Selina Davenport | SD
appealed to the Royal Literary Fund
for financial aid of thirty pounds, while her husband
, who himself had been receiving money from the fund since 1809 without her knowing it, tried to block... |
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