Behrendt, Stephen C. Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte. Macmillan.
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Caroline of Anspach, Queen of England
Standard Name: Caroline of Anspach,, Queen of England
Used Form: Princess of Wales
Used Form: Princess Caroline
Used Form: Caroline Princess of Wales
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| Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Elstob | Sarah Chapone
got up a subscription for EE
, which brought in enough money for a pension of £20 a year. Elstob's former dedicatee Queen Caroline
contributed £100 to this fund, but died before she... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | The poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Stockdale | The opening is almost gothic in tone: What means this awful gloom . . . ? |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Barber | Here a mother teaching her children out of Gay's Fables, 1727, finds her fav'rite Son so moved by the tale of the hare and many friends that she has to assure him that if... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Brereton | JB
's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | A week later (14 October) came SC
's companion-piece, An Epistle to Mrs. Wallup, now in the train of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales
, as it was sent to her at the... |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | These poems were three of the six eclogues (one for each weekday) preserved in the poetry album which Montagu claimed as her own, and printed as Six Town Eclogues in 1747. Monday, the first... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first-named is George I
's rejected queen
(accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover
was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel... |
| Textual Production | Mary Barber | Somebody signing Swift
's name, possibly MB
herself, addressed to Queen Caroline
a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage. The name of Matthew Pilkington
, though not yet put forward, seems a natural... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | After the death of Queen Caroline
, EB
addressed a poem on this event to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole
: The Vision; or, The Royal Mourners, A Poem. Boyd, Elizabeth. The Vision; or, The Royal Mourners. |
| Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT
) composed, at Aberdeen, A Poem, Occasioned by the busts set up in the Queen
's Hermitage . . . . Trotter, Catharine. The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn. Editor Birch, Thomas, J. and P. Knapton. 2: 572-5 |
| Textual Production | Jane Brereton | |
| Textual Features | Jane Brereton | The title-page quotes Guarini
. It comments on various political and topical issues, such as the estrangement between George I
and the Prince of Wales
and a plan for founding a girls' school (on both... |
| Textual Features | Jane Brereton | Each poem is headed by a picture, showing the thatched structure of Merlin's Cave and the stone-built royal hermitage respectively. The first poem, Merlin, is Humbly inscrib'd to Caroline
, Brereton, Jane. Merlin. Cave. title-page |
| Residence | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | When Lady Hertford and her husband were married they had a London town house in Albemarle Street (close to Bond Street) as well as a country estate at Marlborough in Wiltshire. Marlborough Castle, as... |
Timeline
April 1717: The Prince of Wales critically antagonized...
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April 1717
The Prince of Wales
critically antagonized his father, George I
, by arrogating too much power to himself.
17 June 1721: Newspapers reported the royal plan for an...
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17 June 1721
Newspapers reported the royal plan for an experiment as to the safety of inoculation against smallpox, to be conducted on inmates of Newgate Prison
in London.
9 August 1721: Charles Maitland, under the patronage of...
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9 August 1721
Charles Maitland
, under the patronage of Princess Caroline
, experimentally inoculated six Newgate
prisoners (three of each sex) against smallpox.
21 April 1722: The first alleged death from smallpox inoculation...
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21 April 1722
The first alleged death from smallpox inoculation followed by only four days the inoculation of two royal princesses (daughters of Princess Caroline
).
20 January 1724: Elizabeth Harrison wrote for publication,...
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20 January 1724
Elizabeth Harrison
wrote for publication, with her name, A Letter to Mr. John Gay
, On his Tragedy, call'd The Captives. To which is annex'd a copy of verses to the Princess.
19 June 1725: Dorothy Stanley, née Milborne, published...
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19 June 1725
Dorothy Stanley
, née Milborne, published by subscription Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia Moderniz'd, in four books (coinciding with the thirteenth edition of the original romance).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
By 11 September 1730: Stephen Duck published The Thresher's Labour,...
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By 11 September 1730
Stephen Duck
published The Thresher's Labour, a georgicpoem that was unique as an account of labour by a labouring man.
By September 1735: Merlin's Cave at Richmond in Surrey, brainchild...
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By September 1735
Merlin's Cave at Richmond in Surrey, brainchild of Queen Caroline
, was opened to the public.
15 April 1736: The Porteous Riots occurred in Edinburgh...
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15 April 1736
The Porteous Riots occurred in Edinburgh.
20 November 1737: Caroline of Anspach, Queen of England, died...
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20 November 1737
Caroline of Anspach
, Queen of England, died of a rupture after eleven days of excruciating illness.
By 2 April 1756: Stephen Duck, the poet and former farm labourer...
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By 2 April 1756
Stephen Duck
, the poet and former farm labourer who had been taken up by patrons including Queen Caroline
and supplied with a living as a clergyman, drowned himself in the trout stream behind the...
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