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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Cowper, Mary ___ 1685-1724 ___ British ___ courtier BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY William Cowper, later 1st Earl of Cowper, was trained as a lawyer and became a leading Whig politician. He took part in negotiating the union of England with Scotland, and was appointed the first lord chancellor of Great Britain (1707­10). In 1706 he married Mary Clavering, who became Lady to the Bedchamber of Princess of Wales (Caroline Anspach) in 1714. Countess Cowper kept a diary for several years while working in the royal household. The diary is notable for its intimate pictures of court at the beginning of the Brunswick dynasty. Later, William Cowper was suspected of involvement in a Jacobite plot, and this led Countess Cowper to destroy most of the entries in her diary after 1716. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1712-1716 1720 ___ royalty society WEB TEXT LINKS ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Diary of Mary, Countess Cowper, Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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