Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, pp. 155-74. 170
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
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Mary Barber | He concluded, let Mrs Howard
know that I recommend you to the Queen
, |
| 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. |
| Publishing | Jane Brereton | In the Gentleman's Magazine, Edward Cave
announced his competition for a poem on the busts of British worthies set up in Queen Caroline
's Cave or Grotto at Richmond. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 3 (1733): 208 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| politics | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Notwithstanding EBB
's later assertion in Sonnets from the Portuguese that I lived with visions for my company / Instead of men and women, years ago, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press. 3: 239 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Chapone | SC
was a great networker. Having met George Ballard
, a local man (perhaps because her sister was a patient of his mother, who was a midwife), she introduced him to Elizabeth Elstob
and to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Conway | AC
's work was of particular interest to the Philadelphian Society
associated with Jane Lead
. It is now believed to have influenced Leibnitz
(who owned and annotated a copy of her treatise), and through... |
| Occupation | May Drummond | She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. Story, Thomas. 714 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | This scandal-sheet made a point of de Guïnes' support for the rebellious American colonists, and of Lord Craven having married his wife without receiving a fortune appropriate to his own wealth; each of these facts... |
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...
Building item
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...
Women writers item
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...
Building item
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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