Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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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
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She frequented both of the incompatible court circles—those of the king and of the Prince
and Princess of Wales
—apparently in search of a power base. |
| 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... |
| Characters | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | All the mock eclogues (written, like most of Montagu's more ambitious poetry, in heroic couplets with the occasional triplet) target actual individuals and refer to events which were gossip of the day. Monday, Wednesday... |
| Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | MO
published in Blackwoods her Historical Sketches of the Reign of George II, whose subjects include Queen Caroline
(his wife) and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Stockdale | The opening is almost gothic in tone: What means this awful gloom . . . ? Behrendt, Stephen C. Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte. Macmillan. 131 |
| Dedications | Sarah Stone | She had completed it by 1736. Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Stone: Enlightenment Midwife”. Clio Medica: Medicine in the Enlightenment, edited by Roy Porter, Rodopi, pp. 128-44. 129 |
| Dedications | Elizabeth Thomas | She says that at some time a publisher offered her £30 for a Manuscript Folio of my Poems Thomas, Elizabeth, and Richard Gwinnett. Pylades and Corinna. 2: 289 |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Catharine Trotter | The Gentleman's Magazine published Catharine Cockburn's (the former CT
)'s poem on the busts of British worthies in Queen Caroline
's hermitage. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 7 (1737): 308 |
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