Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum, 1986.
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George Granville Earl Lansdowne
Standard Name: Lansdowne, George Granville,,, Earl
Used Form: Lord Lansdowne
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Alexander Pope | It is dedicated to George Granville, Lord Lansdowne
(uncle of the future Mary Delany
). |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Delany | Mary Granville, later MD
, was married in the chapel at Longleat House, Wiltshire, to Alexander Pendarves
, a boorish sixty-year-old squire whom her uncle Lord Lansdowne
wanted as a political ally. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Delany | Her uncle George Granville, Lord Lansdowne
, was a statesman under Queen Anne
, a distinguished amateur poet, and a friend of Alexander Pope
. To MD
's parents Lansdowne was the head of the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | The title-page quotes Lansdowne
. This opens (like MR
's first novel) on a young English army officer, this time in camp before Seringapatam in India, which would place him almost certainly in the... |
| Literary responses | Mary Caesar | She was just as insecure about her style and presentation in letters as in her journal, and elicited reassuring praise from Pope
, Prior, Swift
, Lord Orrery
, and Lord Lansdowne
. 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. 181-2 |
| politics | Mary Delany | The parents of Mary Granville (later MD
) suffered arrest on suspicion of supporting a Jacobite rebellion in the West Country planned by Lansdowne
; soldiers arrived to search their house in the middle of... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | The first title-page quotes a line from Lansdowne
which might serve as an epigraph for most of EH
's oeuvre: first or last, we all must love. Haywood, Eliza. Love in Excess. Editor Oakleaf, David, Broadview, 1994. 33 |
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