Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Talbot | Berkeley was now twenty-five to her thirty-seven. It seems from the letter she wrote him in French in reply to his proposal that she was much in love, but felt the opposition of the elders... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catherine Talbot | According to Eliza Berkeley
, it was the month before George Berkeley
's marriage that CT
wrote a Song of renunciation which resolves to hide her own pain and wish the best for her beloved's future wife. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 219 |
Publishing | Dorothea Du Bois | Her subscribers included Lord Annesley
(of yet another branch of her paternal family) and other relations, George Berkeley
and his wife Eliza Berkeley
, the Dowager Countess Charleville
(who had acquired that style only when... |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | Eliza Berkeley
published in the Gentleman's Magazine her account of the love between her husband
and CT
, with the text of two poems by Talbot from nearly forty years back. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 66 (1796): 631-2 Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 217 |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | Following the renunciation of her love for George Berkeley
, it seems that CT
wrote a series of at least ten poems of passionate feeling. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 117 |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | The British Library
holds a number of CT
's letters, her journal, the manuscript of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, and poems (which, however, are not catalogued under her name). It... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory
, Eliza Berkeley
, Mary Delany
, Ann Donellan
, and Hester Thrale
, besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and... |
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