Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Henrietta Knight Lady Luxborough
Standard Name: Luxborough, Henrietta Knight,,, Lady
Used Form: Knight, Henrietta
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Carter | EC
was courted by John Dalton
, the tutor and preacher who was suspected of having had an affair with Lady Luxborough
. |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Lady Hertford wrote that a certain distrust of her own judgement made her slow in the choice of a friend; but when that choice is made, my attachments are too strong to be easily broken... |
| names | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford |
|
| Occupation | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
| Publishing | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Hertford later included poems of her own composition in her letters to Rowe
and to Lord Winchilsea
, widower of the poet Anne Finch
. She exchanged verse, too, with Frederick, Prince of Wales
... |
| Textual Features | Lucy Aikin | Though most of her anthologized writers are men, LA
includes Hannah More
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Lady Luxborough
. Perhaps recalling her own childhood activism, she included anti-slavery poems. |
| Textual Production | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Frances Thynne, later Hertford, began letter-writing at an early age. She was eleven when her grandfather
was glad to find her in an hopeful way of being a good scribe, qtd. in Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940. 7 |
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