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.
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13 September 1742: Frances Williams wrote a letter of pure anger...
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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...
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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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