King George III

JB 's brother, Matthew , who was one year her elder, had some effect on the course of her life. When he inherited a London house from an uncle (in Windmill Street), he invited...

ALB produces for this much-lamented occasion a simple, dignified poem: perceptive about the workings of public feeling, and remarkable for its reminder that a tear should be spared for the mad grandfather George III ...

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

Publishing it in the year of her protector 's death, she dedicated it to the King 's eldest daughter, Princess Charlotte-Augusta-Matilda , the Princess Royal. It was said that the whole edition sold out in...

This was again anonymous; some thought it by Frances Burney . AMB dedicated it to another of George III 's children, Prince William Henry (a naval officer who would be in a position to offer...

FB , walking on doctor's orders in Kew Gardens and understanding that the madking was safely elsewhere, was accosted by him and (still following orders) ran away.

FB began on her first tragedy, Edwy and Elgiva, as royal Keeper of the Robes during the most frightening phase of the king 's illness.

Among the pleasures of FB 's life-writing are the way it revels in nonce-words and other innovative uses of language, and the play it makes with dramatic techniques like scene-setting and dialogue. Many famous passages...

GC 's uncle William Morton Pitt was a Member of Parliament representing Dorset for nearly fifty years. He worked fervently on behalf of the poor, and lobbied constantly for improved prison conditions. He also regularly...

The frontispiece features a portrait of the cookery writer Hannah Glasse (drawn by EC herself), who is heroicised in the text. This poem answers The Sovereign, a poem by Charles Small Pybus , addressed...

MC , aged seventy-one, wrote the last datable poem in her volume Poems, on Several Occasions: On the Marriage of George the Third.

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...

AD was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...

AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...