Women / Persons ~ P18783
Lady Frances Newburgh
Alternate Names:
- Baroness Bellew of Duleek
- Lady Frances Brudenell
- Countess of Newburgh
- Myra
Gender: Female
Life Dates: ca. 1677 - 23 February 1735
Types:
- Irish
- Lover or muse of writer or artist
- Sexual agency, transgression (homo)
- Society or High Rank
Note: Not apparently in ODNB herself. Granville and other poets wrote about her; Granville's ODNB article suggests his poems to Myra were complimentary, and at least his first play involved cross-dressing women; the scandal may have been revenge. She is said to have had a secret marriage with Sir Thomas Smyth, and a nephew of Smyth's sued her for a debt of "several thousand pounds" (Wikipedia); this nephew wrote a satire, "The Toast," featuring Myra the lesbian witch involved with many women in Dublin.