Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
King George I
Standard Name: George I, King
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 1990. 78 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols. |
| 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, 2011. 2 |
| Textual Features | Elinor James | James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate... |
| Textual Features | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | Here she relates the romantic tale of the marriage of Marie Casimire Clémentine Sobieski
(or Clementina Sobieska) to James Edward Stuart
, known to British history as the Old Pretender. She draws her material from... |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This play, set in Britain after the imperial Romans had left, deals with the usurpation of a throne (in this case by the tyrant Vortigern
, with allusion to George I
), and features strong... |
| Publishing | Susanna Centlivre | It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols. 1 (no. 1): 4 |
| Author summary | Mary Countess Cowper | Most of MCC
's extant writings were produced with some immediate political purpose. Even her loving letters to her husband are attentive to the state of the nation and to his career within it. Other... |
| Author summary | Sarah Lady Piers | Sarah, Lady Piers,
authored five known poems between 1698 and 1714. They include verses prefixed to another's work, an elegy, and two occasional celebrations: one of some admirable ladies and one a Whiggish poem celebrating... |
| politics | Mary Caesar | Gyllenborg had spent most of the summer of 1716 staying with Charles
and Mary Caesar at Benington. He and Charles Caesar were both arrested early in 1717, and Caesar once again incarcerated in the... |
| politics | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
spent an exciting time in London as a member of the Whig elite now in power under George I
. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999. 82ff, 117 |
| politics | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | WMCN
had little hope she could secure a pardon for a Catholic rebel, but nevertheless she tried. She drummed up support, appeared regularly in the gallery at the House of Lords
, organized a petition... |
| politics | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William, first Earl Cowper |
| Occupation | Sir Richard Steele | He had already been an army officer, a court official, the holder of a civil service post, and a member of parliament. He was knighted by George I
in 1715. |
| Occupation | Mary Countess Cowper | In the distribution of favours that marked King George
's accession, MCC
was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to his daughter-in-law Caroline of Anspach
, now Princess of Wales. Cowper, Mary, Countess. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864. 6-7 |
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