This site has ‘Pages’ and ‘Posts’. The pages are listed in the site menu (Facts of Life >‘Marie Courtenay’) and offer some background to the posts. The posts are all stored in order of appearance at New Posts and older Posts, with the oldest at the bottom and the most recent at the top.
These posts have appeared already or will be published later:
- 1782: Charlotte and the calash bonnet | March 24, 2022
- 1783: Isabella Courtenay and her niece | May 30, 2018
- 1784: Balloon hats and silvered sashes
- 1784: Loughborough pills
- 1784: The whole was blown up
- 1787: Dangerous papers
- 1811: A noble lord absconds | June 1, 2018
- 1811: Cousins from County Limerick
- 1812: Another act of atrocity and artifice in Kent
- 1814: A house by the Hudson | June 1, 2018
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- 1835: All my castles
- 1861: Drunk with cheers
Posts are associated with ‘Categories’ which are named at the bottom of the post after the date. By clicking on the name, you can select all the posts in that category. This list shows the most recent post (if any) within each category.
Leisure & luxury
People
- Associates & partners:
- see also: Beckford’s letters to Charlotte Courtenay; People in William’s life A-Z; William’s obituaries with notices of other deaths.
- Family members: 24 March, 2022 / 1782; May 30, 2018 / 1783.
- see also: Beckford’s letters to Charlotte Courtenay; Facts of life; Lady Honywood’s Memorial; Sisters; Uncles, aunts and cousins; Valentia v. Valentia; William and the Churches; William’s obituaries with notices of other deaths; William’s wills; Wills of other people.
- Servants:
- see also: People in William’s life A-Z; William’s French household, 1 &2; William’s wills; Wills of other people.
Places
- Devon: June 1, 2018 / 1811.
- see also: William and the Churches; William’s wills.
- France:
- see also: both ‘Marie Courtenay’ and the new Afterword; William’s French household, 1 & 2; William’s migrations 1811-1821.
- Ireland:
- see also: William and the Churches; William’s obituaries with notices of other deaths.
- London: 1782: Charlotte and the calash bonnet
- New York: June 1, 2018 / 1814.
- see also: William’s migrations 1811-1821.
Scandals & reputation:
- 1784 scandal:
- see also: Scandal of 1784: texts from the time.
- 1811 scandal: 1782: Charlotte and the calash bonnet ; June 1, 2018 / 1811.
- see also: William’s migrations 1811-1821.
- Reputation:
- see also: William in the words of others, 1 & 2.
Status
- Estates & wills:
- see also: ‘Marie Courtenay’; William’s wills; Wills of other people.
- Patronage:
- see also: William and the Churches.
- Rank & titles:
Image
William Blake: Albion rose, 1793. Wikimedia Commons
“Albion rose from where he labourd at the Mill with Slaves / Giving himself for the Nations he danc’d the dance of Eternal Death”
Page history
- First published online 1 June 2018
- 10 August 2020: Blake’s later inscription added to Image
William Courtenay (1768-1835) 
