Caroline of Anspach, Queen of England

Although Gentleman's Magazine poets in general have attracted attention from Anthony Barker , and Jane Brereton has received overdue critical notice from Sarah Prescott , Fidelia's lack of a historical identity seems to have militated...

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 .

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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.

She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. In England she met with all kinds of recognition which most Quaker preachers never dreamed of....

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...

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...

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...

She and Lady Pomfret (another amateur writer) together mourned for the death of Queen Caroline , who had been their admired friend as well as their employer.

MJ corresponded with Charlotte Lennox and with publisher Ralph Griffiths and his wife Isabella . Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson , Joseph Spence , Thomas Warton , and apparently Bonnell Thornton