The Courtesan's Revenge by Frances Wilson

Author:Frances Wilson [Frances Wilson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571316991
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2014-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Henry Brougham, letter to Thomas Creevey MP, 25 August 1816; quoted in G. T. Garratt, Lord Brougham, London: Macmillan, 1935, p. 115.

2 See Leslie Marchand (ed.), Byron’s Letters and Journals, London: John Murray, 1973, vol. 9, p. 29: ‘When Brummell was obliged (by that affair of poor Meyler – who thence acquired the name of “Dick the Dandy-Killer” – it was about money and debt and all that) to retire to …’ Memoirs also refers to Meyler as ‘Dick the Dandy-Killer’.

3 Virginia Woolf, Beau Brummell, New York: Rimmington and Hooper, 1930, p. 5.

4 Memoirs, pp. 602–4.

5 Ibid., p. 604.

6 Woolf, op. cit., p. 1.

7 Memoirs, p. 609.

8 R. G. Thorne, The Commons 1790–1820, London: Secker and Warburg, 1986, vol. 4, p. 585.

9 Garratt, op. cit., preface, quoting Morley.

10 Lytton Strachey and Roger Fulford, The Greville Memoirs, London: Macmillan, 1938, vol. I, p. 120.

11 Ibid.

12 Edinburgh Review, January 1808.

13 Doris Langley Moore, The Late Lord Byron, London: John Murray, 1966, p. 162.

14 Confessions, p. 336.

15 Quoted in Garratt, op. cit., p. 1.

16 Quoted in Flora Fraser, The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996, p. 433.

17 Quoted in E. A. Smith, A Queen on Trial: The Affair of Queen Caroline, Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1993, p. 118.

18 Ibid., p. 115.

19 Thomas Creevey, quoted in Fraser, op. cit., p. 465.

20 Lady Charlotte Bury, The Diary of a Lady in Waiting, quoted in Garratt, op. cit., p. 70.

21 Brougham’s memoirs, quoted in Smith, op. cit., p. 33.

22 Smith, op. cit., p. 92.

23 Moore, op. cit., p. 125.

24 Quoted in Moore, op. cit., p. 52.

25 The evidence for this comes from the painter Benjamin Haydon’s diary, and is quoted in Moore, op. cit., pp. 162–3.

26 Memoirs, p. 570.

27 Ibid., p. 636.

28 Ibid., p. 440.

29 ‘To Lord Byron’, p. 154.

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