King George I

MCC supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. He resigned as Lord Chancellor on 23 September 1710 when the Tories came to...

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. Her correspondence...

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...

This document succeeded in its aim: George I favoured the Whigs throughout his reign, although his naturally autocratic tendencies might well have inclined him more towards the Tories.

She spared the part covering the first two years, and what she had written for 1720 (mostly the months of April and May). She must have preserved the latter as evidence that she...

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...

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.

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...

He became a Church of England clergyman, but after the accession of George I he refused to take the oath of allegiance (since he was a Jacobite). This made him a Nonjuror, ineligible for positions...

Another followed an upsetting review of Charles's Specimens in the Quarterly in February 1812, another on her completing her own On Needle-Work in December 1814-February 1815, and another, unusually, only six months later.

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 .

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.

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...

The subtitle suggests some knowledge of John Webster's early seventeenth-century tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, though the husband of Webster's persecuted heroine (of a disgracefully lower rank than herself) is true and loving...

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...