King George I

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...

Her uncle George Granville, Lord Lansdowne , was a statesman under Queen Anne , a distinguished amateur poet, and a friend of Alexander Pope . To MD 's parents Lansdowne was the head of the...

SC opened a series of Hanoverian poems with A Poem. Humbly Presented to His Most Sacred Majesty George . . . upon his Accession to the Throne.

It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, with a dedication to the future George I . This political gamble (with Queen Anne still on...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield , made an ambitious marriage: to Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenburg , illegitimate daughter of George I .

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...

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...