Thomas, Elizabeth, 1675 - 1731, and Richard Gwinnett. Pylades and Corinna. 1731.
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Caroline of Anspach Queen of England
Standard Name: Caroline of Anspach,, Queen of England
Used Form: Princess of Wales
Used Form: Princess Caroline
Used Form: Caroline Princess of Wales
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | All the mock eclogues (written, like most of Montagu's more ambitious poetry, in heroic couplets with the occasional triplet) target actual individuals and refer to events which were gossip of the day. Monday, Wednesday... |
| Dedications | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
| Dedications | Elizabeth Elstob | The first of these works, dedicated to Caroline, Princess of Wales
, is sometimes called the first grammar of Anglo-Saxon; in fact Elstob was preceded by her friend and patron George Hickes
, who published... |
| Dedications | Elizabeth Thomas | She says that at some time a publisher offered her £30 for a Manuscript Folio of my Poems |
| Dedications | Sarah Stone | She had completed it by 1736. Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Stone: Enlightenment Midwife”. Clio Medica: Medicine in the Enlightenment, edited by Roy Porter, Rodopi, 1995, pp. 128-44. 129 |
| Employer | Anne Irwin | AI
travelled to Germany, appointed by Queen Caroline
to escort Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
to England to marry the Prince of Wales
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Employer | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
, was officially appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales
. “Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Household of Princess Caroline 1721-27”. Institute of Historical Research. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | This scandal-sheet made a point of de Guïnes' support for the rebellious American colonists, and of Lord Craven having married his wife without receiving a fortune appropriate to his own wealth; each of these facts... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth
, sprang from a petty ruling family in Germany. He was a nephew both of Frederick the Great of Prussia
and of Queen Caroline
, wife of George... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | MJ
corresponded with Charlotte Lennox
and with publisher Ralph Griffiths
and his wife Isabella
. Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson
, Joseph Spence
, Thomas Warton
, and apparently Bonnell Thornton |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
made some good friends at Court. She was particularly fond of Charlotte Clayton (later Lady Sundon)
. Her close relationship with |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Chapone | SC
was a great networker. Having met George Ballard
, a local man (perhaps because her sister was a patient of his mother, who was a midwife), she introduced him to Elizabeth Elstob
and to... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | She and Lady Pomfret
(another amateur writer) together mourned for the death of Queen Caroline
, who had been their admired friend as well as their employer. Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940. 92 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Conway | AC
's work was of particular interest to the Philadelphian Society
associated with Jane Lead
. It is now believed to have influenced Leibnitz
(who owned and annotated a copy of her treatise), and through... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Countess Cowper | On her appointment as Lady in Waiting to Caroline of Anspach
, the new Princess of Wales, MCC
began keeping a private diary to record the true version of what went on at Court, in... |
Timeline
April 1717: The Prince of Wales critically antagonized...
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April 1717
The Prince of Wales
critically antagonized his father, George I
, by arrogating too much power to himself.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
1: 26, 29
17 June 1721: Newspapers reported the royal plan for an...
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17 June 1721
Newspapers reported the royal plan for an experiment as to the safety of inoculation against smallpox, to be conducted on inmates of Newgate Prison
in London.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
211 and n30
Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston. Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
62-3
Razzell, Peter E. The Conquest of Smallpox. Caliban Books, 1977.
ix
9 August 1721: Charles Maitland, under the patronage of...
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9 August 1721
Charles Maitland
, under the patronage of Princess Caroline
, experimentally inoculated six Newgate
prisoners (three of each sex) against smallpox.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
213
21 April 1722: The first alleged death from smallpox inoculation...
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21 April 1722
The first alleged death from smallpox inoculation followed by only four days the inoculation of two royal princesses (daughters of Princess Caroline
).
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
215
Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston. Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
63
20 January 1724: Elizabeth Harrison wrote for publication,...
Women writers item
20 January 1724
Elizabeth Harrison
wrote for publication, with her name, A Letter to Mr. John Gay
, On his Tragedy, call'd The Captives. To which is annex'd a copy of verses to the Princess.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
19 June 1725: Dorothy Stanley, née Milborne, published...
Women writers item
19 June 1725
Dorothy Stanley
, née Milborne, published by subscription Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia Moderniz'd, in four books (coinciding with the thirteenth edition of the original romance).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Mitchell, Marea. “Dorothy Stanleys Enterprise: Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia Modernizd (1725)”. Sidney Journal, No. 28, 2010, pp. 63-76.
Mitchell, Marea. “Awakening Other Spirits: Dorothy Stanleys Arcadia and the Apparatus of Authorship”. Parergon, No. 29, 2012, pp. 113-31.
By 11 September 1730: Stephen Duck published The Thresher's Labour,...
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By 11 September 1730
Stephen Duck
published The Thresher's Labour, a georgic poem that was unique as an account of labour by a labouring man.
The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.
By September 1735: Merlin's Cave at Richmond in Surrey, brainchild...
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By September 1735
Merlin's Cave at Richmond in Surrey, brainchild of Queen Caroline
, was opened to the public.
Backscheider, Paula R. “The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-102. 97-8
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 532
15 April 1736: The Porteous Riots occurred in Edinburgh...
National or international item
15 April 1736
The Porteous Riots occurred in Edinburgh.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
338
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
984
20 November 1737: Caroline of Anspach, Queen of England, died...
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20 November 1737
Caroline of Anspach
, Queen of England, died of a rupture after eleven days of excruciating illness.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
370-1
By 2 April 1756: Stephen Duck, the poet and former farm labourer...
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By 2 April 1756
Stephen Duck
, the poet and former farm labourer who had been taken up by patrons including Queen Caroline
and supplied with a living as a clergyman, drowned himself in the trout stream behind the...
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