Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network
An interconnected, late-eighteenth-century network of fashionable hostesses and political figures Frances Anne (née Greville) Crewe, Lady Crewe; Henrietta (née Spencer) Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough; and Henrietta’s sister Georgiana (née Spencer) Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. Their activities were centred in multiple locations, including London (Devonshire House), Bath, and various country seats. Literary and personal connections included Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Charles James Fox, the Burney family, the Tighe family, and Crewe’s mother Frances Greville.
Charles Burney (1726–1814)
- 1726
- 1814
Coteries | Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Musician and author; father of Frances Burney D’Arblay, Charles Burney, and Charlotte Burney Francis Broome; friend of Samuel Johnson, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Edmund Burke.
Frances Burney D'Arblay
- 1752
- 1840
Coteries | Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Writer; most famous for her novels, memoir of her father, Charles Burney (1726–1814), and posthumously published journals; features prominently in the manuscript verse miscellany of her sister, Charlotte Burney Francis Broome.
Georgiana Spencer Cavendish
- 1757
- 1806
Coteries | Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Political hostess; leading member of the Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network.
Frances Anne Greville Crewe
- c1748
- 1818
Coteries | Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Political hostess; daughter of Frances Macartney Greville; addressee of a poem by her admirer Charles Fox.
Charles James Fox
- 1749
- 1806
Coteries | Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Politician; author of satirical poems like “On Gibbon,” “Invocation to Poverty,” and “To the Duchess of Devonshire" as well as "Verses Upon Mrs. Crewe,” which was popular with miscellany compilers.
Frances Macartney Greville
- c1727
- 1789
Coteries | Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Poet; mother of Frances Anne Crewe; best known for the poem “A Prayer for Indifference,” which was popular with miscellany compilers.
Henrietta Spencer Ponsonby
- 1761
- 1821
Coteries | Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Noblewoman; member of the Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- 1751
- 1816
Coteries | Tickell family, and Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Playwright and politician; known for plays such as The Rivals and The School for Scandal; prominent Whig; his poetry circulated among both the Tickell family coterie, with whom he had familial ties through his wife Elizabeth Linley Sheridan, and the Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network, with whom he had social ties.
Edward Tighe
- 1740
- 1801
Coteries | Tighe family, and Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Uncle of Mary Blanchford Tighe.
Mary Blachford Tighe
- 1772
- 1810
Coteries | Tighe family, and Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
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Poet and hostess of a salon in Ireland; known for her six-canto allegorical poem Psyche (1805).
Folger MS M.a.163
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, 1786–1798.
120 poems.
A very feminocentric collection with many female-authored works.
Manuscript appears connected to the Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network; the Tighe family; the Ladies of Llangollen
Period | Description | Manuscripts | Coteries |
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1791-1820 | some or all of the miscellany's compilation period falls within this timespan |
77 | 7 |