King George I

Standard Name: George I, King

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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/.
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/.
Her correspondence...
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...
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 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...
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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