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Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
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death | Mary Caesar | MC
died, just three months after her husband
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Caesar | After Charles Caesar
failed to be re-elected to parliament in 1734 (coming, in fact, bottom of the poll) and lost his member's immunity from prosecution, he was detained in debtors' prison. He remained there until... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Caesar | In early March 1739 MC
's husband, Charles
, suffered a stroke, a polsy on One side of his Boddy, which however left his head very clear. Caesar, Mary. The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar, 1724-1741. Editor Potter, Dorothy, Edwin Mellen Press, 2002. 135 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | Her father, Spencer Cowper
, was a lawyer, a member of parliament, and at the end of his life a judge. His Whig allegiance made him the rival and enemy of Charles Caesar
, husband... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Caesar | Mary Freeman
married a lawyer, landowner, MP and leading Jacobite conspirator Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, 1992, pp. 178-98. 178 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) Potter, Dorothy, and Mary Caesar. “Foreword, Acknowledgements”. The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar, 1724-1741, Edwin Mellen Press, 2002, p. viii - xii, xix-xxii. x |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Caesar | Charles Caesar
, husband of MC
, died after years of increasing ill health. He had suffered a stroke in early 1739. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, 1992, pp. 178-98. 194 Rumbold, Valerie. Women’s Place in Pope’s World. Cambridge University Press, 1989. 246 |
Friends, Associates | Judith Cowper Madan | It was through the family friends Mary
and Charles Caesar
that Judith Cowper met her future husband, and in the year of her marriage she wrote a poem about the bower at their estate of... |
Literary responses | Mary Caesar | When MC
first showed her husband
her writing, the response was gratifying. He was so Parssial . . . to say it should be Lay'd Upon the Table in my Picture—that is, it would... |
politics | Mary Caesar | Gyllenborg had spent most of the summer of 1716 staying with Charles
and Mary Caesar at Benington. He and Charles Caesar were both arrested early in 1717, and Caesar once again incarcerated in the... |
politics | Mary Caesar | |
Textual Features | Mary Caesar | After her husband
died, MC
closed her book by pasting in his obituary notice and writing: Alas, there's no Expression / To Tell my Dismal Woe. These words from a bereaved royalist (John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham |
Textual Production | Mary Caesar | She describes her motivation like this: My Begining to wright was for amusement, when maloncarly on the Death of Our Great Friend Treasurr Oxford
, and the Absence of Mr Caesar
, to whom I... |
Textual Production | Mary Caesar | MC
opened the centenary year of the execution of the first Earl of Strafford
(the year that was to see both her husband
's death and her own) with a lament for the nation's past... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Caesar | MC
begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford
(First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne
), with her husband, Charles Caesar
. It was news of... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Caesar | When she married him, Charles Caesar
's Benington estate brought in £3,500 a year. But he lost a lot of money in the South Sea Bubble and fell deeply into debt. By 1729 his creditors... |
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