King George III

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

A poem prefacing Wallace addresses a friend of Holford named Miss Gertrude Louisa Allen (and includes a tribute to King George the Good, his people's friend). A prose preface asserts the writer's English patriotism to...

Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte (The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III and the Duke of Kent (The Eldest King...

The poems in pastoral form include religious meditations, hymns for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian festivals, love complaints, and addresses to abstracts such as Pride and Sincerity. Despair is a dramatic mini-narrative, beginning Moments on...

The controversial feature in this work was the depiction of King George III as a stingy nobleman (who, however, was not without some good points).

Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV , with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Milton , Thomson , Prior , Gray , Pope , and the poems of...