Stuart, Lady Louisa. Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart to Miss Louisa Clinton. Editor Home, Hon. James Archibald, D. Douglas, 1901–1903, 2 vols.
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Lady Mary Coke
Standard Name: Coke, Lady Mary
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | Lady Louisa Stuart | At her christening, on 6 September 1757, Lady Mary Coke
stood proxy for Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
as godmother. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | The novelist Lady Charlotte Bury
and diarist Lady Mary Coke
(like AD
an upper-class woman who proved to be singularly unfortunate in her arranged marriage) was Damer's cousins. |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
| Publishing | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | One catalogue lists this work as published in 1805. Years later SSW
wrote that she had once entertained literary ambitions. It was the patronage of Lady Charlotte Finch
that enabled her, when already a seasoned... |
| Publishing | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
's Some Account of John, Duke of Argyll
, and his Family was posthumously printed for private circulation at London by Clowes
in 1863, and in the memoirs of Lady Mary Coke
(Argyll's youngest... |
| Reception | Dorothea Celesia | A prologue by William Whitehead
mentioned DC
's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics... |
| Textual Features | Lady Louisa Stuart | In many ways LLS
thought like a feminist. Lady Mary Coke
's disastrous marriage made her comment not only on the personalities involved, but also on English law in relation to marriage. She was attentive... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Dempster | CD
's journalism, dating from the years 1861 to 1898, often takes members of the royalty or the nobility as its subject, as does Three Noble Englishwomen, 1894, whose subjects are Lady Burghersh (later Lady Westmorland) |
Timeline
24 December 1764: Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto,...
Writing climate item
24 December 1764
Horace Walpole
published The Castle of Otranto, dedicated to Lady Mary Coke
.
Reed, Joseph W., Jr et al. “Introduction”. The Castle of Otranto, edited by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
xviii, 13
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