Strobel, Heidi A. “Women and Networks: Local and Transnational”. 42nd ASECS Annual Meeting.
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England
Standard Name: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,, Queen of England
Used Form: Queen Charlotte Sophia
Used Form: Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Gilding | Late in the volume the longest poem she had ever attempted, Diana, comes with 4-page prefatory Remarks by Daniel Turner
(F.): he says he wrote this classic of humble deference at her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Harcourt | The printed diary begins with the crucial days during which the disturbed king gave signs of convalescence, just in time for the withdrawal of the Regency Bill which would have put the government into the... |
Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
was one of several women artists patronised by Queen Charlotte
. Another was Caroline Watson
, with whom Fanshawe sometimes worked. In 2014 a small exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Caroline Watson... |
Textual Production | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The dedication imagines writers aspiring to the honour of influencing the baby Charlotte: I taught the maid! cries each exulting Muse. O’Keeffe, Adelaide. Llewellin. Cawthorn. prelims |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | MR
composed two remarkable political poems: The Birth-Day (about public celebrations for Queen Charlotte
) and January 1795, about the month's headline news. Curran, Stuart. “Mary Robinson and the New Lyric”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 9-22. 12-13 |
Textual Production | Henrietta Battier | Soon afterwards (though at a later age than the fifteen years which she claimed) she embarked on complimentary occasional verse in the form of an elegy for Lady Townshend
(wife of the then fourth Viscount and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
Textual Production | Sarah Scott | It reached a second edition within the year. Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv. xliv |
Textual Production | Mary Collyer | After silent years MC
published a translation of The Death of Abel from the German of Salomon Gessner
, with a dedication to the queen
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | The original manuscript, with the author's illustrations, is in the Lilly Library
, Indiana University
, while a fair copy made twenty years or so after composition, as a presentation gift to Queen Charlotte
is... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Gaskell | An embedded narrative places the novel's main story at two removes from the reader, during the youth of the elderly internal narrator, which coincides with the French Revolution. The Revolution (which provides a further... |
Textual Features | Mary Deverell | |
Textual Features | Maria De Fleury | |
Residence | Frances Trollope | She visited Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and the battlefield of Waterloo. She also visited Charlemagne
's cathedral at Aiz-la-Chapelle or Aachen, as well as the Rhine and surrounding region... |
Residence | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
, in her new position as lady of the bedchamber to Queen Charlotte
, became a resident of Windsor Castle. Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co. 83 |
Reception | Hannah More | This work became an overnight best-seller. Queen Charlotte
dismissed her Sunday hairdresser. A fifth edition was needed by April, and two more followed within a few more months. All had large print-runs. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 109, 104 |
Timeline
20 May 1761: George III consented to marry Princess Charlotte...
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20 May 1761
George III
consented to marry Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
; formal proposals began.
8 July 1761: The engagement of George III and Princess...
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8 July 1761
The engagement of George III
and Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
was announced at a Privy Council meeting.
22 September 1761: King George III and Queen Charlotte were...
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22 September 1761
King George III
and Queen Charlotte
were crowned; Horace Walpole
and Thomas Gray
each left a vivid account of the occasion, while Catherine Talbot
wrote a prose poem about non-attendance, about spending a festal day...
11 June 1788: George III, at the resort town of Cheltenham,...
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11 June 1788
George III
, at the resort town of Cheltenham, publicly suffered preliminary symptoms leading up to his second attack of porphyria, which began on 17 October.
23 April 1789: A solemn service of thanksgiving for the...
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23 April 1789
A solemn service of thanksgiving for the recovery of George III
was held in St Paul's Cathedral.
9 June 1792: Gillray published a remarkable political...
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9 June 1792
Gillray
published a remarkable political cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil: personified versions of Queen Charlotte
, William Pitt
, and Lord Thurlow
.
1812: The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society was...
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1812
The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society
was founded, to provide charity to London's poor.
June 1816: Lady Isabella King opened at Bailbrook House...
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June 1816
Lady Isabella King
opened at Bailbrook House near Bath a communal home for single gentlewomen (or Protestant nunnery): a project going back to Mary Astell
, which King picked up from Sarah Scott
's Millenium Hall.
November 1818: George III's wife, Queen Charlotte, died...
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November 1818
George III
's wife, Queen Charlotte
, died.
9 June 1819: The library of the late Queen Charlotte was...
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9 June 1819
The library of the late Queen Charlotte
was auctioned by Christie's
; it included Jane Austen
's works, plus titles by Catherine Cuthbertson
, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, Alethea Lewis
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