Series PQH2. - Literature collected by Frances Morres Gore and family,

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PQH2.

Title

Literature collected by Frances Morres Gore and family,

Date(s)

  • 1809-1832. (Creation)

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12 vols.

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Notebooks containing copies of published poems, ballads, songs and prose works in English, French and Italian, translations from classical and continental authors, and original compositions, compiled mainly by Frances Morres Gore in her own hand, with some contributions by others and a small number of printed items, 1809-1832. The authors most commonly represented here are Lord Byron, Mme de Stael, Thomas ('Anacreon') Moore, Mary Robinson, Robert Southey and Edward Young. Others include Robert Burns, Thomas Campbell, William Cowper, Richard Cumberland, Thomas Dibdin, Mme de Genlis, Oliver Goldsmith, Reginald Heber, Horace, Leigh Hunt, John Langhorne, C[harles] L[loyd]?, John Milton, Mary Russell Mitford, James Montgomery, Cornelius Neale, Sydney Owenson, Petrarch, Alexander Pope, Charles Phillips, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Shelley, James Smith, Mary Tighe, Voltaire and Richard West, as well as Frances Morres Gore and her son William Gore. The content of the volumes is similar throughout, with the exception of the last. Many of the works relate to themes of romance, friendship, women, mortality, moralistic and philosophical platitudes, mythology, the natural world and the Irish landscape. Other compositions concern historical figures, the foibles of contemporary society, antipathy to the Georgian monarchy, Hanoverian government policies, and the Napoleonic Wars. Mrs Gore 's interest in the theatre is evidenced by a significant number of items referring to actors and playwrights, George Colman, William Conway, Robert Elliston, David Garrick, the Kemble family, Henrietta O'Neill, Alexander Fisher Palmer, Shakespeare, R.B. Sheridan and Sarah Siddons in performances at various English and Irish theatres between 1808 and 1824.

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Accruals

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Arranged chronologically by file.

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Language and script notes

Mainly English, some French, small proportion of Italian.

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Related units of description

Further literature collected by Frances Morres Gore is NLW, Brogyntyn MS II.58i-iii.

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Note

Title of series supplied from contents; original file titles retained where indicated.

Note

Some of the contributions post-date the death of Frances Morres Gore.

Note

Preferred citation: PQH2.

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Virtua system control number

vtls004525947

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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