King George III

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...

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 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...

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...

EG published The War-Office, A Novel: her dedication to the Duke of York (son of George III ) is dated 1 December 1802.

On of one of George III 's holidays at Weymouth, he visited EH 's uncle's farm. A sheaf of straw that the King handled as it came from the Thrashing [sic] Machine, was hoisted...

In her teens EH made up romantic stories for herself on the slightest opportunity. She attached several to George III 's daughter Princess Sophia , who was suspected of having an illegitimate child. Meeting a...

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.

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...

MH occupied a court position during the anxious time when George III was first attacked by apparent insanity. She seems to have been the one responsible for recommending Dr Francis Willis as his physician.

MH kept a diary during her time as a courtier during the reign of George III . Parts of it were published during the late-nineteenth century, but it seems the only parts deemed worthy of...

It is dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester , a daughter of George III who had acquired that title by marriage in 1816.

Appreciation of FH was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott and Byron , in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray , her own publisher)...

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 .