King George III

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).

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

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...

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.

ALB produces for this much-lamented occasion a simple, dignified poem: perceptive about the workings of public feeling, and remarkable for its reminder that a tear should be spared for the mad grandfather George III ...

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...