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" Delight and instruction : "
Welham, Deborah
Mounsey, Chris ; Goodman, Joyce
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Latin Dissertation
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1097584
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TLets515813
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Welham, Deborah
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Delight and instruction :\ Welham, DeborahMounsey, Chris ; Goodman, Joyce
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University of Winchester
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2009
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2009
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Ph.D.
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This research presents a literary and political biography for Penelope Aubin. Aubin, thenatural daughter of Sir Richard Temple and Anne Charleton (who was the daughter ofWalter Charleton, Royal physician and natural philosopher), was a poet, novelist,translator, Orator and playwright. Penelope Charleton married clandestinely and young,like the heroines of her novels. On her marriage Penelope Aubin joined a family ofmerchants trading from Jersey and the City of London, and with family members inBarbados and Jamaica. Within five years of entering the mercantile world Aubin'sexpertise of trading ventures was being sought by investors, and she was called to giveevidence to the Board of Trade.Aubin's early poetry is a statement of her Royalist and Anglican heritage, but her novelsof the early 1720s are a reflection of her knowledge of trade, the threat of piracy and ofthe natural disasters that occur at sea. However, by the later 1720s Aubin's works weremore obviously politically engaged, reflecting the changing hopes of the Tory party andits supporters under a Hanoverian monarchy. Then, in 1729, when she opened herLady's Oratory, intending from the outset to discuss ':Ministers of State' and how theybehave in office, Aubin very publicly added her voice to the wave of political oppositionto Robert Walpole.
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Goodman, Joyce
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Mounsey, Chris
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University of Winchester
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