Charles Caesar

Standard Name: Caesar, Charles

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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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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, pp. 178-98.
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named Charles Caesar .
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, p. viii - xii, xix-xxii.
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Wealth and Poverty Mary Caesar
The property and possessions of MC 's husband were seized by his creditors to be held against his debts.
Hayton, David W. et al., editors. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1690-1715. http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1690-1715.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
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, pp. 178-98.
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Rumbold, Valerie. Women’s Place in Pope’s World. Cambridge University Press.
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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)
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
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...
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
In 1720 MC 's husband was arguing that a Stuart restoration could not be accomplished, and ought not to be attempted, without foreign aid. By March 1722, however, the planning stage of the Atterbury plot...
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...

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