Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

Standard Name: Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Textual Production	Martha Hale	MH wrote the earliest-dated poem in her collection, an ode addressed to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams , apparently seeking military preferment for the man she married the following year. Hale, Martha. Poetical Attempts. T. Davison, 1800. 1

Timeline

13 September 1742

Frances Williams wrote a letter of pure anger to her husband , who had hinted that she must have infected him with venereal disease when it was actually the other way round.

Stewart, Mary Margaret. “’And Blights with Plagues the Marriage Hearse’: Syphilis and Wives”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 103-13.

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1743

The first number appeared of The Foundling Hospital for Wit, an anthology, it claimed, of Brats of Wit and Humour—that is, poems

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discarded by authors embarrassed to own them.

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