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Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
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Standard Name: Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish,,, Duchess of
Birth Name: Georgiana Spencer
Styled: Lady Georgiana Spencer
Married Name: Lady Georgiana Cavendish
Titled: Lady Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Pseudonym: A Young Lady
Nickname: The Rat
An occasional or amateur author during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, wrote in a number of genres: poetry, diaries, travel writings, letters, and possibly two novels. Much of her work remains unpublished and her canon, both in prose and poetry, is far from certain.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | Her aunt the Duchess of Devonshire
(whose wealth, or rather that of her husband the duke, helped support Caroline's parents) wrote a new year poem for the little girl, instructing her to use her gift... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriette Wilson | Some months before her twentieth birthday, HW
fell in love at first sight with Lord John Ponsonby
(a relation of the famous Duchess of Devonshire
and cousin of Lady Caroline Lamb
), who became second... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | MBCL
's daughter Lavinia
was born at Castlebar on 27 July 1762 and married the second Earl Spencer at her father's London house on 6 March 1781. Evidently, her mother-in-law Lady Bessborough
(sister of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Trimmer | Their second daughter, Sarah known as Selina
, taught the younger ones and also some neighbour children. Yarde, Doris M. Sarah Trimmer of Brentford and her Children, with Some of her Early Writings 1780-1786. Hounslow and District History Society, 1990. 17 |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | CS
was a friend at least from 1787, but more probably from childhood, with the poet Henrietta O'Neill
(who married in 1777). She visited her at the O'Neills' London house at least twice, and through... |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Herschel | Though CH
recorded in summer 1774 that she had lost her only female acquaintance (apparently because her work for her brother left her no time for social life), she later met Charles
and Frances Burney |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Berry | Lady Charlotte Lindsay
, like Anne Damer before her, wrote of her friendship with MB
(which dated from about 1821) in highflown sentimental terms, and felt that Berry devoted too much time and emotional capital... |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | Angus Macnaghten voices the belief that MRhad few women friends (he excepts Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
) and that women were scared off by her erudition. He may, however, have been misled by women's... |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | In Richmond and elsewhere MC
met emigrés fleeing the French Revolution. She also met a number of women who wrote: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Mary
and Agnes Berry
, and Anne Damer
. In... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Damer | AD
's wide circle of friends included Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Lady Melbourne
, Joanna Baillie
, Sarah Siddons
, the Berrysisters
, the dramatist Lady Elizabeth Craven (formerly Berkeley, later Margravine of Anspach) |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mariana Starke | Her preface says the translation was first suggested to her by the dowager Lady Spencer
(mother of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
), whom she met in Italy; Lady Spencer also persuaded to her to publish... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | She here turns to use some of the research she had done with the intention of writing a non-fictional study of Belgium (only recently constituted as a nation) and its politics, and a guide-book element... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | Critic Carolyn Woodward
has noted (besides this novel's picture of a community of women in Protestant-nunnery style) a general resemblance between its plot and that of The Sylph (probably by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
), 1778. Woodward, Carolyn, and Isobel Grundy. Email about Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Sarah Fielding to Isobel Grundy. 5 Aug. 2003. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bonhote | She now intends, for the benefit of her readers, to do something new and to write of life after marriage, since that too has its problems. She aims to be natural, not marvellous. Olivia (after... |
| Leisure and Society | Anne Damer | AD
was often a subject for other artists. Sometime before 1775 Daniel Gardner
painted an unusual fancy picture of her, with her friends Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
(a particularly frequent sitter on account of her... |
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