Lady Frances Brudenell
Lady Frances Brudenell (before 1677 – 23 February 1735/36), Countess of Newburgh, was an Irish aristocrat known as the subject of a satire in which she was portrayed as the leader of a society of lesbians.
She was the daughter of
She was also rumoured to have had an unrecognised marriage to Sir Thomas Smyth.[1]
Lady Frances was the subject (under the pseudonym "Myra") of a series of love poems published by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne from 1712.[citation needed]
She was the subject of a debt action brought by an Oxford don,
She had several children including a daughter, Charlotte Maria Livingston (1694–1755), and a son, John Bellew, 4th Baron Bellew of Duleek (1702–1770).
She died on 23 February 1735/36 in Dublin, Ireland, and was buried in St. Audoen's Church, Dublin.
References
- ^ Martin, John I. (1834). A Bibliographical Catalogue of Books Privately Printed, Including Those of the Bannatyne, Maitland and Roxburghe Clubs, and of the Private Presses at Darlington, Auchinleck, Lee Priory (etc.). Payne and Foss. p. 28.
- ^ Edward Shorter: Written in the flesh, a history of desire. 2005 p. 77
- ^ Caroline Gonda, John C. Beynon: Lesbian dames, Sapphism in the long eighteenth century. 2010 p. 127
- ^ Margaret Reynolds: The Sappic Companion. Palgrave Macmillan, 30 Jun 2002 p. 126