Wedlock (65 page)

Authors: Wendy Moore

Tags: #Autobiography, #Scandals, #Science & Technology, #Literary, #Women linguists, #Social History, #Botanists, #Monarchy And Aristocracy, #Dramatists, #Women dramatists, #Women botanists, #Historical - British, #Linguistics, #Women, #Language Arts & Disciplines, #Historical - General, #Linguists, #Historical, #Great Britain - History - 18th Century, #History, #Art, #General, #Biography & Autobiography, #Biography

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Vaillant, Francois le

Verney, Eleanor
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Bowes, Eleanor

Verney, Thomas

Vineyard Nursery, Hammersmith

Waite, Elizabeth

Walker, George: witnesses Stoney-Mary wedding; connives at Gray’s relations with Mary; as Mary’s confidante; wife appointed housekeeper at Stanley House; and Stoney’s injury in duel ; and Stoney’s ill-treatment of Mary ; holds Mary’s prenuptial deed ; dismissed by Stoney; Stoney accuses of affair with Mary; on Stephens’ child; and birth of Mary’s daughter; in Gillray cartoon; Stoney accuses in divorce action

Walpole, Horace: on Bate; in London society; on Charlotte Windsor; letter from Mann on Strathmore; dislikes Strathmore; attends Elizabeth Montagu’s blue-stocking gatherings; visits Lady Elizabeth Craven; stays in Paris; on Mary’s flight from Stoney; on Mary’s abduction

Warren, Dr Richard

Watson, William

Wemmergill, County Durham

Westminster Hall, London

Wharton, Thomas

White, George

Wilkes, John

Wogdon, Robert (gunsmith)

Wollstonecraft, Mary: attempts suicide by laudanum;
Maria

women: education and upbringing; surrender land and property on marriage; botanical and gardening interests; widowhood and independence; denied custody of children in widowhood; canvassing in Parliamentary elections ; confined by husbands in asylums ; wives’ property rights improved

World, The

Wortley Montagu, Edward

Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary

Wortley Montagu, Sir Sydney

Wright, Sir Sampson

Wrottesley, Sir John

Wynne, William

York, Frederick, Duke of

Young, Arthur