King George III

Publishing it in the year of her protector 's death, she dedicated it to the King 's eldest daughter, Princess Charlotte-Augusta-Matilda , the Princess Royal. It was said that the whole edition sold out in...

This was again anonymous; some thought it by Frances Burney . AMB dedicated it to another of George III 's children, Prince William Henry (a naval officer who would be in a position to offer...

Soon afterwards (though at a later age than the fifteen years which she claimed) she embarked on complimentary occasional verse in the form of an elegy for Lady Townshend (wife of the then fourth Viscount and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

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 ...

JB 's brother, Matthew , who was one year her elder, had some effect on the course of her life. When he inherited a London house from an uncle (in Windmill Street), he invited...

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...

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 that she believes to be on...