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- 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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Arranged chronologically by file.
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Mainly English, some French, small proportion of Italian.
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Title of series supplied from contents; original file titles retained where indicated.
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Some of the contributions post-date the death of Frances Morres Gore.
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Preferred citation: PQH2.
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- Colman, George, 1762-1836. (Subject)
- Conway, William Augustus, 1789-1828. (Subject)
- Elliston, R. W. (Robert William), 1774-1831. (Subject)
- Garrick, David, 1717-1779. (Subject)
- Kemble family. (Subject)
- O'Neill, Henrietta, 1757 or 8-1793. (Subject)
- Palmer, Alexander Fisher, fl. 1808x1824. (Subject)
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production. (Subject)
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. (Subject)
- Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831. (Subject)
- Gore, Frances Morres, -1829 -- Literary collections. (Subject)