The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (96 page)

48
Case of Divorce and Remarriage Discussed
.

49
i.e. Dorothy Lady Stanhope on behalf of her niece Lady Betty Livingstone, cit. Stone,
Family, Sex and Marriage
, p.184; HMC, Rutland MSS, IV, p.551.

50
G.E.C.,
Complete Peerage
, IV, p.406; X, p.422;
Hatton Correspondence
, I, p.159.

51
HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Part V, p.140.

52
Life of Lady Russell
, p.lxxiv.

53
Nichols,
Leicestershire
, II, Part I, p.62.

54
HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Part V, p.iv.

Chapter 16: Benefiting by Accomplishments

1
Woolley,
Queen-like Closet
, Part II, p.540.

2
Sidney,
Diary
, I, p.191 and note ii, p.22.

3
Waller Poems
, I, p.56; Grant,
Margaret the First
, pp.195, 229:
Osborne Letters
, p.50; Stuart,
English Abigail
, p.51.

4
Evelyn,
Mrs Godolphin
, p.154.

5
Cripps,
Elizabeth of the Sealed Knot
, pp.10, 36, 59, 190.

6
Reid,
John and Sarah
, p.141.

7
Green,
Queen Anne
, p.99.

8
DNB (Abigail Masham).

9
Pepys Diary
, I, p.288; II, p.232 and note 2, p.4.

10
Pepys Diary
, II, p.139.

11
Pepys Diary
, III, p.223.

12
Pepys Diary
, II, pp.11, 204.

13
Her Christian name was probably Winifred; see
Pepys Diary
, III, p.256 and note 2; III, p.277;
Verney Memoirs
, IV, pp.20–21.

14
Pepys Diary
, IV, pp.79, 280.

15
Pepys Diary
, V, p.152; Lambley,
French Language
, pp.366–70; John Vanbrugh,
Provok’d Wife
, Act II, scene II;
Pepys Diary
, V, pp.265, 274.

16
Pepys Diary
, VI, pp.252, 163–4; VII, p.138.

17
Pepys Diary
, VIII, pp.471, 475; IX, p.210.

18
Pepys Diary
, VII, p.311; VI, p.235; VIII, p.212.

19
Pepys Diary
, IX, pp.337–8, 344, 367.

20
DNB (Woolley); see Woolley,
Gentlewomans Companion
, pp.15–17.

21
See Wallas,
Before the Bluestockings
, pp.17–54.

22
Woolley,
Gentlewomans Companion
, p.10.

23
Woolley,
Gentlewomans Companion
, p.288.

24
Woolley,
Gentlewomans Companion
, p.65.

25
Webster,
Great Instauration
, pp.219–20; Turnbull,
Hartlib
, pp.120–21.

26
Reynolds,
Learned Lady
, pp.270–80; Lambley,
French Language
, p.381; Makin,
Essay on Education
, p.23.

27
cit. Green,
Queen Anne
, p.99; Lambley,
French Language
, p.392.

28
Hamilton,
William’s Mary
, p.19.

29
Winchilsea Poems
, p.5.

30
Pepys Diary
, V, p.45; Ede,
Arts and Society
, pp.84–6; see Greer,
Obstacle Race
, pp.255–7;
Ladies Dictionary
, p.434.

31
Makin,
Essay on Education
, p.22.

32
Birch,
Anna van Schurman
, p.73; van Schurman,
Learned Maid
, p.5.

33
Stuart,
Girl through the Ages
, pp.196–7.

34
Fraser,
King Charles II
, p.194.

35
Makin,
Essay on Education
, Postscript.

36
Makin,
Essay on Education
, pp.3–7.

37
Bowle,
Evelyn
, p.213; Hiscock,
Evelyn and Mrs Godolphin
, p.167.

38
Locke Correspondence
, III, p.105; II, p.485; DNB (John Locke); cit. Illick, ‘Child-Rearing’, p.30; Masham,
Occasional Thoughts
, p.197.

39
HMC, Hastings MSS, IV, p.348.

40
Fox Journal
, pp.520, 748; see Cressy,
Literacy
, p.145.

41
BL Add MSS, 5858, fo. 213–21.

42
Verney Memoirs
, IV, p.221.

43
‘The New Letanie’, Thomason Tract, 669. fo. 10/120; cit. Grant,
Margaret the First
, p.37.

44
Cressy,
Literacy
, p.37; Cressy,
Education
, p.114.

45
Makin,
Essay on Education
, p.33.

46
Poems by Eminent Ladies
, I, p.215; Rochester,
Works
, p.18.

47
Halifax,
Complete Works
, p.289; Evelyn,
Mundus Muliebris
, p.8, Preface.

48
Life of Lady Russell
, p.xcviii.

49
Sedley Works
, II, p.112; cit. Utter and Needham,
Pamela’s Daughters
, p.23.

50
Verney Memoirs
, IV, pp.225–6.

51
Barksdale,
Letter touching a College of Maids or a Virgin Society;
see Florence Smith,
Mary Astell
, for this and other biographical details.

52
See Hartmann,
Vagabond Duchess
, for the life of Hortense Mancini.

53
Astell,
Reflections
, pp.4–5.

54
Burnet,
History
, 2 June 1708, cit. Smith,
Mary Astell
, p.22.

55
Astell,
Reflections
, Preface.

56
‘The Saxon Nymph’.

57
Elstob,
English-Saxon Family
, Preface, p.ii.

58
‘The Saxon Nymph’.

59
‘The Saxon Nymph’; DNB (Elizabeth Elstob).

Chapter 17: Petticoat-Authors

1
Masham,
Occasional Thoughts
, p.199;
Winchilsea Poems
, p.5.

2
Aphra Behn,
Sir Patient Fancy
, Act I, scene I.

3
Thomas Wright,
The Female Vertuosos
, Act III, scene I; William Congreve,
The Double Dealer
, Act III, scene X.

4
Gildon,
Comparison Between Two Stages
, pp.26–7.

5
Needham, ‘Mrs Manley’, p.265.

6
Mary Manley,
The Lost Lover
, Prologue, cit. Needham, ‘Mrs Manley’, p.263; Duffy,
Passionate Shepherdess
, p.138.

7
There are two recent biographies of Aphra Behn: Maureen Duffy,
The Passionate Shepherdess
(1977) which casts fresh light on the mystery of her birth, and Angeline Goreau,
Reconstructing Aphra
, A
Social Biography
(1980).

8
Life of Mr Joseph Alleine
, Printer’s Note.

9
Barham, ‘Discovery of the Authorship of the
Whole Duty of Man
’;
Winchilsea Poems
, p.xxxviii; Ballard,
Memoirs of Several Ladies
, p.363.

10
See her biography by P.M. Souars,
The Matchless Orinda
(1931).

11
cit. Souars,
Orinda
, p.189.

12
cit. Souars,
Orinda
, p.91;
Aubrey’s Brief Lives
, ed. Lawson Dick, p.242.

13
cit Souars,
Orinda
, pp.91, 98.

14
Souars,
Orinda
, p.253.

15
cit. Souars,
Orinda
, pp.110, 43.

16
Taylor, ‘Treasures of Friendship’, pp.63–5.

17
Souars,
Orinda
, p.277.

18
Killigrew Poems
, Publisher’s Note; Dryden’s ‘Prefatory Ode’.

19
Killigrew Poems
, p.85.

20
Killigrew Poems
, p.79.

21
Killigrew Poems
, p.32.

22
Killigrew Poems
, p.51.

23
Killigrew Poems
, ed. Morton, p.xi.

24
Killigrew Poems
; Dryden’s ‘Prefatory Ode’.

25
Killigrew Poems
, p.13.

26
See Greer,
Obstacle Race
, p.255, where it is pointed out that her Christian name was Joan, not Anne, as stated previously.

27
Greer,
Obstacle Race
, pp.255–7.

28
Woodforde Papers
, p.5.

29
Sir Oliver Millar in a letter to the author; Millar,
Lely
; Blunt,
Botanical Illustrations
, pp.129–30.

30
See
Winchilsea Poems
, Introduction by Myra Reynolds, for biographical details.

31
Winchilsea Poems
, p.21.

32
Winchilsea Poems
, p.4.

33
Winchilsea Poems
, pp.268–70, lxxvi.

34
i.e. by Dale Spender in
Man Made Language
, pp.194–5, 230.

35
cit.
Winchilsea Poems
. p.lxii.

36
M.H. Nicholson in
Conway Letters
, p.xxv.

37
Conway Letters
, p.47.

38
Conway Letters
, p.57, note 7.

39
Conway Letters
, p.152.

40
Conway Letters
, p.53.

41
Sacks,
Migraine
, p.241.

42
See
Conway Letters
, esp. pp.113, 91 note I, 114, 79.

43
Conway Letters
, p.106, 116.

44
Conway Letters
, pp.248–9.

45
Conway Letters
, p.282.

46
Conway Letters
, p.168.

47
Conway Letters
, p.337.

48
cit.
Conway Letters
, p.299–300.

49
Conway Letters
, p.278.

50
Conway Letters
, p.412.

51
Conway Letters
, p.413.

52
By M.H. Nicolson,
Conway Letters
, p.378.

53
Conway Letters
, p.433.

54
Conway Letters
, p.436.

55
Conway Letters
, pp.456, 481.

56
Conway Letters
, pp.451, 457.

57
Conway Letters
, p.159;
Principles of the most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
, Preface.

58
Principles of the most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
, pp.3, 11, 14.

59
Principles of the most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
, p.77.

60
Conway Letters
, p.451;
Principles of the most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
, Preface;
Conway Letters
, p.456.