Edward Harley second Earl of Oxford

MC shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope , Prior , Swift , and Mary Barber , and of the...

Most important among EE 's scholarly circle were George Hickes and her brother . The group of scholars known as the Oxford Saxonists, to their credit, seems to have welcomed her on terms of equality...

Left alone in the world and without financial support, Elstob had at first the idea of opening a large, ambitious school in Chelsea, then still outside London. (Much later in her life she...

The duchess was the only child of Edward Harley (later Lord Oxford), whose manuscript collection EE had used in her youth. It was Mary Pendarves, later Delany , who arranged this, as the only post...

She lost money on this venture, and in 1722 she brought a lawsuit against twelve men, ranging from ships' captains and an agent who had received her money for investment to members of the powerful...

Despite the thirty-pound offer, when ET copied out her poems for this publication (as she explained to Lord Oxford years later), she was counting only on two guineas from Curll for the copyright, which is...

A political poem in CG 's volume (untitled, about the willingness of the Anglo-Irish gentry to spend any money to get into the purely figurehead Irish Parliament ) also survives in a copy among Lord Oxford

Successive editions (extending to an eighth in 1765) expanded from one to four volumes, tracking the expansion of the original, which contained stories for six days in 1722, but for eighteen days in 1731.

Newspapers carried competitive advertisements for the two versions. Extant manuscripts (three known, besides Hervey's scribal copy) suggest that the poem circulated before being printed. It would be tempting but wrong to associate one version with...