Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
King George I
Standard Name: George I, King
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Violence | Teresia Constantia Phillips | TCP
's account firmly states that, though she had been out with Mr Grimes (to see a firework display in honour of George I
's return from Hanover), she flatly refused him sex. Over the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Tollet | A New Ballad (like almost all answers to Lord Dorset
's cavalier ballad To all You Ladies now at Land) is written from a strongly gender-conscious point of view as well as a Tory... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Brereton | The title-page quotes Guarini
. It comments on various political and topical issues, such as the estrangement between George I
and the Prince of Wales
and a plan for founding a girls' school (on both... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood | The subtitle suggests some knowledge of |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary, Countess Cowper | Much of the diary is filled with reports of jockeying for personal power: the names dropped are those of people forming and breaking alliances. By spring 1716 it has become gradually more expansive on topics... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | An anonymous Poem on the Arrival of the King
, Address'd to His Majesty, published by J. Morphew
, has been attributed to EB
, but cannot be hers if she is correctly identified here. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Textual Production | Jane Brereton | JB
published her first free-standing poem, as a Lady: The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace
, Imitated: and apply'd to the King. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. 78 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Textual Production | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | MADH
issued her first novel, Savile House: An Historical Romance of the Time of George the First, in two volumes under the name Addlestone Hill (a coded reference to her home at Addlestone in... |
Textual Production | Elinor James | In This Day Ought Never to be Forgotten, being the Proclamation Day for Queen Elizabeth, EJ
presented a role-model to the new King George
. The date was that of Elizabeth's accession. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 308 |
Textual Production | Agnes Wheeler | Mention in the first dialogue of George III
's illness shows that it was written in 1788 or later. Wheeler, Agnes. “Introduction”. Westmorland Dialogues, edited by Leonard Smith, Lensden. 2 |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
opened a series of Hanoverian poems with A Poem. Humbly Presented to His Most Sacred Majesty George
. . . upon his Accession to the Throne. The title-page of this publication bears the... |
Textual Production | Elinor James | In Mrs. James's Thanks to the Lords
and Commons
for their great Sincerity to King George, EJ
again marked an anniversary in national political life and in her career as its interpreter. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 308 |
Textual Production | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
and her husband
exchanged affectionate letters from before their marriage. Some years before George I
succeeded to the English throne she established contact with his chief minister, Baron Bernstorff
, by letter. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Mary, Countess Cowper | At the turning point of George I
's accession, Lord Cowper
established his position in the new political landscape through A Treatise on the State of Parties (otherwise known as An Impartial History of Parties... |
Textual Production | Sarah, Lady Piers | Sarah, Lady Piers,
welcomed the arrival of a new monarch in George
for Britain, a poem published with her name in two formats, one lavish (fine paper, wider margins) and one more ordinary. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Timeline
28 December 1694: The twelve-year-old marriage between the...
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28 December 1694
The twelve-year-old marriage between the future George I
and Sophia Dorothea of Celle
was dissolved; Sophia Dorothea's lover had already been killed, probably without her husband's knowledge.
June 1714: Sophia of Brunswick, Electress of Hanover,...
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June 1714
1 August 1714: Queen Anne died and messengers left for Hanover...
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1 August 1714
Queen Anne
died and messengers left for Hanover to inform George I
that he had assumed the throne.
18 September 1714: George I landed in England to claim the ...
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18 September 1714
George I
landed in England to claim the throne.
1715: The theatre censorship system which had been...
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1715
The theatre censorship system which had been in place since the 1690s died out when Drury Lane
under Richard Steele
ceased sending playscripts to Killigrew
.
February 1715: The first elections of George I's reign returned...
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February 1715
The first elections of George I
's reign returned a sizeable Whig majority to the parliament summoned for 17 March.
April 1717: The Prince of Wales critically antagonized...
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April 1717
The Prince of Wales
critically antagonized his father, George I
, by arrogating too much power to himself.
23 April 1723: The Prince of Wales was formally reconciled...
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23 April 1723
The Prince of Wales
was formally reconciled with his father, George I
.
11 June 1727: King George I died and George II assumed...
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11 June 1727
King George I
died and George II
assumed the throne.
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