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Catherine Tofts

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22: 185: 108: 143: 87:, English consul at Venice. They had a son but he died when still a child and Catherine became mentally ill. She died in 1756 and her husband married again the following year. 251: 222: 111: 21: 256: 241: 215: 76:
has a short poem about Mrs Tofts in his "works" which talks of her beauty. It is thought however that the verse was written by
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Stuart L. Morrison, ‘Smith, Joseph (1673/4?–1770)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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Catherine Tofts (in white), Margherita de l'Épine (with a red muff) and some opera musicians
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 17/On Mrs. Tofts
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painted L'Épine with her back to Tofts, in the composition
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was in earnest. Perhaps to illustrate the famed rivalry,
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Marco Ricci
Italian opera
Margherita de l'Épine
Marco Ricci
Jonathon Swift
Alexander Pope
Joseph Smith



Grove, George, ed. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1450-1889) (1900)
A to Z of Women in World History. "Margherita de L'Epine"
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 17/On Mrs. Tofts
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