Philip Stanhope third Earl of Chesterfield

Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio...

She then lived from summer 1732 to spring 1733 with Lord F—, until he reluctantly left her to make a rich marriage. The ODNB guesses from the tone of her Letter to Chesterfield that...

EM wrote to express to Elizabeth Vesey her strong views on the deplorable morality of Lord Chesterfield 's letters, recently published.

Late in the volume the longest poem she had ever attempted, Diana, comes with 4-page prefatory Remarks by Daniel Turner (F.): he says he wrote this classic of humble deference at her...

The recipients were supposed to be aged between twelve and sixteen. The book was to deal with manners, conduct in life, and the leading objects of taste, science, and literature. It was to be as...

MOW was a gender egalitarian. In a letter to her son Winslow (which newspapers got hold of and printed) she condemned Lord Chesterfield 's letters on grounds of his opinion of women: I have ever...

TCP is one of the best-known of the courtesan memoirists of the eighteenth century, though it is still not unanimously agreed that she wrote her own text. Her letter to Chesterfield qualifies her as a...

The title-page suggests that the contents are to cover primarily her protracted legal duel with Muilman , though of course many other episodes are included as well. The edition of 1761 has a pared-down title-page...

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

The generally outrageous tone of this work includes challengingly feminist sentiments, though it is hard to gauge the degree of irony in its self-presentation. As a young man, she says, the future Lord Chesterfield needed...

SG 's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day, whether in religion, politics...

Each volume has an introductory chapter, addressing the reader in the manner of, and with some images borrowed from, Henry Fielding or Laurence Sterne (the latter, indeed, is mentioned by name). MM hopes her reader...

Remarks on Mrs. Muilman's Letter to the . . . Earl of Chesterfield, by a Lady, appeared, addressing the courtesan memoirist T. C. Phillips and now known to be by SC .

TCP almost certainly published, though once again with some obfuscation over her authorship, A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield.

Nine months after her mother died, TCP , aged thirteen, was raped by Thomas Grimes, a nobleman who got her drunk and tied her up. He was not, as long assumed, the future Lord Chesterfield