Caroline of Anspach, Queen of England

Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT ) composed, at Aberdeen, A Poem, Occasioned by the busts set up in the Queen 's Hermitage . . . .

The Gentleman's Magazine published Catharine Cockburn's (the former CT )'s poem on the busts of British worthies in Queen Caroline 's hermitage.

She says that at some time a publisher offered her £30 for a Manuscript Folio of my Poems In her dedication of this volume to Caroline Princess of Wales , the Honour and...

She had completed it by 1736. Publication was probably intended as a means to ensure the success of a daring career step: moving her practice from the West Country to London. Her full...

The opening is almost gothic in tone: What means this awful gloom . . . ? The poem is strongly partisan, arguing that the banished queen ought to have been there to comfort her...

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...

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 .

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.

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...

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...

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...

In the distribution of favours that marked King George 's accession, MCC was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to his daughter-in-law Caroline of Anspach , now Princess of Wales.

On her appointment as Lady in Waiting to Caroline of Anspach , the new Princess of Wales, MCC began keeping a private diary to record the true version of what went on at Court, in...

MCC supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. He resigned as Lord Chancellor on 23 September 1710 when the Tories came to...

MCC made some good friends at Court. She was particularly fond of Charlotte Clayton (later Lady Sundon) . Her close relationship with Penelope Schutz (née Madan) became a liability when Penelope fell out of favour...