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Elizabeth Grenville (née Wyndham; 1719 – 5 December 1769) was an English artist and writer. She was the wife of George Grenville, prime minister from 1763 to 1765; the daughter of Sir William Wyndham, a prominent Tory politician; and the mother of William Grenville, prime minister from 1806 to 1807.
George Grenville (14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770) was a British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain. Grenville was born into an influential political family and first entered Parliament in 1741 as an MP for Buckingham.
In Grenville’s bold, feminist portrayal, Elizabeth emerges from the shadows of her domineering husband, John Macarthur, as a force to be reckoned with: a woman of distinctly modern sensibilities whose intelligence, cunning, pragmatism and resourcefulness enable her to make the most of her less-than-ideal circumstances.
13 de jul. de 2020 · Grenville’s imaginary memoir of Elizabeth slips into the space between hoax and history, the paradox of purporting to be true while declaring it is not.
- Kerrie Davies
13 de ago. de 2020 · A Room Made of Leaves is built around a fake premise: that the author has discovered an old tin box filled with the memoirs of Macarthur’s wife, Elizabeth. What follows is an invented account of...
27 de abr. de 2022 · Genealogy for Elizabeth Grenville (Bevil) (c.1564 - c.1636) family tree on Geni, with over 245 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Catherine Elizabeth Grenville AO (born 1950) is an Australian author. She has published fifteen books, including fiction, non-fiction, biography, and books about the writing process.
