Disappearing on Jan 1, 1753, Canning reemerged after 28 days with allegations that she had been abducted and held prisoner in a failed attempt to coerce her to become a prostitute. As Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and Westminster, Henry Fielding heard Canning's accusations, and convinced of her veracity, Fielding issued a warrant for her abusers’ arrest.
Prominent Roman painter of classical and clerical subjects.
A Scottish romantic poet, biographer, historian, literary critic, and, from 1821-1830, editor of New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Thomas Campbell was recognized most widely for the poem The Pleasures of Hope (1799) and the seven-volume survey of canon poets Specimens of the British Poets (1819). and
Born Elizabeth Gunning, Elizabeth married James Hamilton, sixth duke of Hamilton, in 1752. After his death in 1758 she married a professional soldier, John Campbell, who succeeded to his father’s title of Duke of Argyll. Elizabeth served for over two decades as lady in waiting to Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, for which services she was honored in 1776 with the title 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon suo jure.
English antiquary, topographer, and king-of-arms. Camden is best remembered for his Britannia (1586), a pioneering topographical survey of Great Britain, and Annales (1615), the first detailed account of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, which became the basis for most later accounts of Elizabeth's reign.
The best known work of this poet is The Scribleriad (1751). He contributed to the World between 1753 and 1756.
French theologian and Protestant reformer responsible for the doctrine known as Calvinism. After publishing his Institution de la religion in 1536, he moved to Geneva, where he published sermons, commentaries, and letters developing and refining the doctrine of predestination, sin, and grace.
Calprenède was known along with d'Urfé and Scudéry for promoting literary and cultural aesthetics of delicate refinement exalting chivalric virtues partly through long works of romance fiction that constitute the most significant examples of the Roman de longue haleine, literally the "long-winded novel." His most popular works in that genre include Cassandre (1642-45), which stretched to ten volumes and was translated into English as Cassandra, the Fam'd Romance (1652), and Cléopâtre (1646-57), a twelve volume work, translated as Hymen's Praeludia, or Love's Masterpiece (1665).
The half-human, half-monster son of the banished witch Sycorax in Shakespeare's The Tempest, one of the only Shakespearean figures to come to have its own literary existence outside of the work for which it was created. Caliban's mother dies shortly before the arrival of Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, and Caliban's subsequent enslavement. Caliban worships Setebos, the entity he believes to be his mother's god, and appeals to her powers to free him from Prospero's torment.
Medium, magician, and psychic healer Count Cagliostro enjoyed a number of years as a sensation in the fashionable circles of eighteenth-century Europe until his wife denounced him to the Inquisition.
