Caroline of Anspach, Queen of England

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, the fact that she seldom went out...

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...

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 , and after imploring...

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...

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.

JB dated her inscription to Queen Caroline of the first poem in a sixteen-page quarto issued by Cave as by a Lady: Merlin: A Poem . . . To which is added, The Royal...

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.

Somebody signing Swift 's name, possibly MB herself, addressed to Queen Caroline a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage.

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...

He concluded, let Mrs Howard know that I recommend you to the Queen , though he declined to supply a direct introduction to a potential royal patron. Two months later Gay wrote to Swift...