Frances Greville
Frances Greville née Macartney (c 1724 – 1789) was an Irish poet and celebrity in Georgian England. She was born in Longford, Ireland in the mid-1720s; one of four daughters of James Macartney and Catherine (née Coote), daughter of the eminent judge Thomas Coote and niece of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont. By the early 1740s, she was in London, accompanying Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond. Horace Walpole's poem ''The Beauties'' (1746) mentions her as "Fanny" among the most prominent women at court. Frances married Fulke Greville of Wilbury House (Wiltshire) in 1748 after an elopement. Greville was a gambler and a dandy, but that he loved his wife is witnessed by her presence (under the character of "Flora" in his ''Maxims, Characters, and Reflections'' (1756)). Frances is believed to have contributed to the volume herself. Frances Greville's own career as an amateur poet was marked by one resounding success: her poem, "Prayer for Indifference", first published in ...
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1724 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1724. Events *January – Andrew Michael Ramsay goes to Rome to tutor the two sons of James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the British throne. *August – Thomas Longman establishes the Longman publishing house in London. *November 16 – An "autobiographical" ''Narrative'' of the life of notorious criminal Jack Sheppard, said to be by Daniel Defoe, goes on sale at Sheppard's execution at Tyburn. New books Prose *Anonymous (attributed to Daniel Defoe) – ''A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard'' * Gilbert Burnet (died 1715) – ''Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time'', Vol. I *Samuel Clarke – ''Sermons of Samuel Clarke'' * Anthony Collins – ''Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion'' with ''An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing'' *Mary Davys – '' The Reform'd Coquet'' (novella) * Daniel Defoe **'' Roxana: The ...
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