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...

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...

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)...

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.

This story credits Sir David Dundas as the cause of her writing. He was a friend both to her and to her lover the duc d'Orléans , and physician both to her and to 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.

The Philobiblon Society published just under sixty pages of MH 's Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III as item six in volume 13 of Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, probably edited...

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...

SG wrote a poem entitled On the American Disturbance . . . To the King, which she preserved in her manuscript album: the earliest dated among her writings.

The dedication imagines writers aspiring to the honour of influencing the baby Charlotte: I taught the maid! cries each exulting Muse. It praises the royal family indiscriminately: the present king and queen , and...

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