Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Holford | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Inchbald | 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). Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 97-8 |
Reception | Elizabeth Inchbald | It was requested for performance by the king
and attended by the Prince of Wales
. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 34 |
Textual Production | Lucille Iremonger | LI
published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia
, daughter of George III
(who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria
's daughters in 1982. In 1981... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Jebb | She felt with the Foxite Whigs that the king
was guilty of folly, mismanagement, and Stuart-like behaviour, and was interfering unwarrantably with the processes of government. Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , pp. 597 - 604, 661. 601 |
Dedications | Isabella Kelly | IK
's Minerva Press
novel Eva was advertised as just published. It was dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester
(wife of George III
's next-but-one brother, William Henry
, unacknowledged by the royal family because... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Kelly | IK
's father, William Fordyce
, was the son of a successful merchant later convicted of kidnapping. The son became a physician and served as an army surgeon (with the rank of captain) and later... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
's father, Sir Joseph Knight
, was a Rear-Admiral of the White squadron. He entered the Royal Navy
at the age of fourteen, needing a profession since his family had lost a considerable amount... |
politics | Mary Latter | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Latter | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Latter | The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler
). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!, Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher. 1 |
Dedications | Charlotte Lennox | Again Johnson supplied her with a dedication (to the future George III
; a sheet of George's notes on the plays is bound into his presentation copy, now in the British Library
). The work... |
Dedications | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | The Dublin edition has sixteen pages of close type. In a prefatory Advertisement, MBCL
says she hopes to influence the something in agitation with regard to Ireland Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan,. Verses on the Present State of Ireland. i |
Dedications | Charlotte McCarthy | This too was printed for the Author. Copies cost six shillings. This appears to be the first edition, though the work had been advertised as Now ready for the Press, and will be Publish'd... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | The Critical Review (to which the author's identity was no secret) said of it that HM
's narrative gift was no contemptible endowment, and that her gaiety of humour was pleasing. It did, however... |
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