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intervened in the affair of Dissenting Minister Thomas Rosewell
; she says that courtiers seeking a pardon for Rosewell came to her and begged her to go to the king
.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Elinor James
This is her defence of the High-Church preacher Henry Sacheverell
, who had got into trouble with a flagrantly Jacobite sermon preached on 5 November 1709. James calls him a Church of England
angel in...