Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 390 entries in verse and prose, which present satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Titles include A reflection on death; ...
Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Occasional verse, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, and Religious life and customs
Nine manuscript letters to Fanny Burney, dictated and signed by Mary Delany. Subjects include the health of the two women and of friends; plans for visits and holidays; the publication of Charles Burney's Musical Catalogue; and Burney's appointment as...
Description:
Mary Granville Delany (1700-1788) was an English Bluestocking, best-known today for her flower collages and other paper artworks.
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of 35 poems, bound in together. The verses are primarily lighthearted and address the subjects of love and women, occasionally in the form of occasional verse. Titles include A tale of Fidelia's quarrel...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757., Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762., Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680., Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800., and Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, Humorous poetry, English, Occasional verse, English, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, and Social life and customs
Manuscript, in mutliple hands, of a collection of several hundred riddles, acrostics, and rebuses, lighthearted poems primarily on female behavior, and several dozen hand-colored satirical engravings and newspaper clippings pasted in. Poem titles inc...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland
Subject (Topic):
Acrostics, Catholics, Politics and government, English poetry, English wit and humor, Engravings, British, Rebuses, Riddles, Verse satire, English, Women, Conduct of life, and Women authors
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a diary written by the housekeeper of Thomas Secker, later the Archbishop of Canterbury, while he was Bishop of Oxford. The diary mentions the activities of the nobility, including the movements of Secker's f...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762. and Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Diaries, Domestics, Women, Conduct of life, Women authors, Foreign relations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Manuscript, in a multiple hands, of a collection of newspaper articles, prints, drawings, letters, and autobiographical text, primarily relating to Grimstone's published writing. The volume includes "my first prose [which] was the following letter in...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Grimstone, Mary Leman (Rede)
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, Letters, Music, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, Periodicals, and Social life and customs
