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.
persons with degrees of separation from Lady Frances Newburgh