Probably Miss Anne Seward, a minor poetess who enjoyed considerable popularity at the end of the eighteenth century. Her elegies on Captain Cook and Major André went through several editions, as did her Louisa, a poetical novel, a class of composition in which she was the predecessor of Mrs. Browning herself. Her collected poetical works were edited after her death by Sir Walter Scott (1810).
The real name of George Sand.
By Hans Andersen; an English translation by Mary Howitt was published in 1845.
Duchesses in the French court had the privilege of seating themselves on a tabouret or stool while the King took his meals; hence the droit du tabouret comes to mean the rank of a duchess.