King George III

MD continued to make new friends late in life (though she was said to have declined to meet Hester Thrale ). The king and queen were remarkably attentive to her in her widowhood. Prominent...

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...

After Margaret, Duchess of Portland, died in 1785, MD must have felt the pinch. She had not taken regular money from her friend, but her long stays in the hospitable household at Bulstrode must have...

Back in England in her second widowhood, MD was a frequent visitor to her lifelong, very close friend the Duchess of Portland . The duchess, an amateur scientist of unusual talent and achievement, brought MD

DDB published at Dublin, by subscription and dedicated to the king , Poems on Several Occasions, by a Lady of Quality.

The novel was set during the period when King George III was suffering from mental incapacity, and his eldest son was Regent.Mary Anne Clarke , who was mistress to the king's second son, was...

As hostess she entertained a talented and faintly bohemian circle. The Prince of Wales came to breakfast, but some ladies at the head of society found her not sufficiently respectable to visit. George III felt...

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

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...

Her father, John Fanshawe, had a position in the royal household of George III . He died in 1816.

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...

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

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...

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 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...