King George I

Standard Name: George I, King

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Textual Production Jean Plaidy
The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...
Textual Production Jane Porter
It was published by Longman in three volumes.
Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, http://U of A, Special Collections.
title-page
The king was said to have suggested the topic.
Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, http://U of A, Special Collections.
1: v-viii
It seems, therefore, that JP , in turning to the House of Brunswick for a...
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 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...
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...
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...

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