King George III

ML subscribed enthusiastically to the pro-John Wilkes , anti-Lord Bute views of the radical Opposition at the time of George III 's accession. She saw English society as corrupt and decadent, and looked...

The ending of her last novel sounds as if she subscribed to the ideas put forward by Lord Bolingbroke about the leadership potentially offered by a patriot king. Such ideas were re-surfacing with the prospect...

MBF seems to have been too much occupied with the religious life to have much thought to spare for earthly politics. At the beginning of December 1792, however, after a conversation with someone anxious about...

AF was a conservative royalist who rejoiced repeatedly at the recovery of George III from his first bout of illness (and wrote a song for the local Sunday school pupils to rejoice too) and praised...

Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III fell ill, probably...

The Norwich Mercury carried an 80-line poem by AFOn His Majesty's illness (George III 's first serious and prolonged attack of porphyria).

In the year of CP 's death there appeared, privately printed, her sacred poemThe Happy King, addressed to George III .

Gooch must have spent heavily on advertising. From 5 April until 5 May front-page advertisements for her book appeared in the London Star and other papers. They took up an unusual number of column-inches, since...

It was requested for performance by the king and attended by the Prince of Wales . The Critical Review suggested that even after ten years of writing for the stage EI was not yet...

The family of Sarah Kirby (later ST ) moved to London, where her father taught the future George III .

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...

CH moved from Bath to Datchet when her brother William was appointed to a position (as astronomer, not musician) in the personal service of George III .

In the early years of her second widowhood, MD took to staying half the year with the Duchess of Portland at her estate at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire. She spent her winters...

This collection contained writing in many genres, including dialogues, pastorals, allegories, and imitations of Henry Macpherson 's fashionable Ossian. One of the essays paints a rosy picture of the necessity of working for bread...

Among ET 's shorter poems, her forms include hymns, odes, fables (the magpie and the stork, the rose and the thorn), and blank verse. A poem on Richborough Castle near Sandwich has masses of historical...