King George III

These fictions tend to juggle stock elements. The House of the Crickets explores the parental tyranny said to be characteristic of rural Irish family life.Betty Carew, March 1910, presents a [w]holesome love...

The title-page quotes from Milton 's sonnet on his dead wife. The text quotes from Pope and Young . MC emphasises real, sincere emotion (her only recommendation, she says) in her dedication, in the advertisement...

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...

The title-page quotes Le Sage , in French, avowing that he intended to depict people as they are, but not real individuals (a quotation that might work in reverse, encouraging readers to expect recognisable portraits)...

It provides the first picture in English of the manners of the court of Christian VII , and of Queen Caroline Matilda , sister of George III . This is presented through the eyes of...

It reached a second edition within the year. Its full title is The History of Mecklenburgh, from the First Settlement of the Vandals in that Country, to the Present Time; Including a Period of...

PBS published his second book of poetry, Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson . Being poems found amongst the papers of that noted female who attempted the life of the King in 1786.

EG published The War-Office, A Novel: her dedication to the Duke of York (son of George III ) is dated 1 December 1802.

In her teens EH made up romantic stories for herself on the slightest opportunity. She attached several to George III 's daughter Princess Sophia , who was suspected of having an illegitimate child. Meeting a...

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

The series of watercolours by EPS which her husband presented to George III are now in the British Library .

MH composed the earliest entry to be included nearly a hundred years later when her journal of life at Court was printed as Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III.

MH composed the latest entry to be included in Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III.

While staying with John Rich in London (for the second time) in 1761, ML not only studied stagecraft to benefit her own writing, but was kept busy doing writing jobs he suggested. Aware of her...

RS , in his capacity as Poet Laureate, published a poetic tribute to George III (who had died in January 1820), entitled A Vision of Judgement.