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English noblewoman (1673 – 1750)| The HonourableLady Worsley | |
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| Born | Frances Thynne, 1673 |
| Died | 1750 |
| Spouse | Sir Robert Worsley, 4th Baronet |
| Children | Frances, Lady Carteret |
| Parent(s) | Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth Frances Finch |
Frances Thynne, Lady Worsley (née Thynne, 1673 – 1750) was an English noblewoman connected to several poets of the Augustan era.
She was one of three children of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, and his wife Frances, née Finch.
In 1690 she married Sir Robert Worsley, 4 baronet. They had one daughter, Frances. They lived at Appuldurcome House, Isle of Wight, which Sir Robert began rebuilding in 1792.
Her portrait was painted by Charles Jervas, Godfrey Kneller, and William Wissing.
Poetic connections
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Lady Worsley's maternal aunt was Anne Finch, who wrote poems about her and her siblings. She held a long-running correspondence with Finch and with Jonathan Swift, who held her in high regard. Her daughter Frances would continue this friendship with Swift. Alexander Pope's poem 'Epistle to Mr Jervas' contains the line 'Other beauties envoy Worsley's eyes,' referring to Lady Frances Worsley. However, this compliment was originally intended for Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and was changed to Worsley after Lady Mary and the poet had quarrelled.
References
- Cokayne, G.E., ed. (1910–1959). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant. Vol. 12. p. 587.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - Barker, George (1904). Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. Vol. 9 (published 215).
- Kennedy, Deborah (2013). Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-century Women Poets. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-61148-485-4.
- Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of (1998). The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems. University of Georgia Press. pp. xxxi–xxxiv. ISBN 978-0-8203-1995-7.
- Swift, Jonathan (1803). The Works. J. Johnson. p. 44.
- Halsband, Robert (1953). "Pope, Lady Mary, and the Court Poems (1716)". PMLA. 68 (1): 237–250. doi:10.2307/459918. ISSN 0030-8129.