Who is Fanny Greville

Frances Greville née Macartney (c 1724 – 1789) was an Irish poet and celebrity in Georgian England.

She was born in Longford, Ireland in the mid-1720s; one of four daughters of James Macartney and Catherine (née Coote), daughter of the eminent judge Thomas Coote and niece of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont.

By the early 1740s, she was in London, accompanying Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond. Horace Walpole's poem The Beauties (1746) mentions her as "Fanny" among the most prominent women at court.

Frances married Fulke Greville of Wilbury House (Wiltshire) in 1748 after an elopement. Greville was a gambler and a dandy, but that he loved his wife is witnessed by her presence (under the character of "Flora" in his Maxims, Characters, and Reflections (17...
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Fanny Greville Poems

  • Prayer For Indifference
    I ask no kind return of love,
    No tempting charm to please;
    Far from the heart those gifts remove,
    That sighs for peace and ease....
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Heart 1 Joy 1 Love 1 Pain 1 Peace 1 I Love You 1 Soul 1 Return 1 Touch 1 True 1


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Katheder: charles greville sees fanny kemble, a great c19th actress, on stage in 1829. "she is short, ill made, with large ha...
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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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