Princess Charlotte Augusta

AS was writing poetry at the age of nine. She went on as an adult to publish several volumes of verse. Her first poem to appear on its own instead of in a magazine (in...

In the same year, 1833, LEL published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book a poem entitled The Princess Charlotte. This sets its evocation of the terrible national blow of the princess's death, on 6...

This was written, with a sense of urgency and importance, to benefit the young Princess Charlotte , whose educational establishment was just being arranged. It rapidly went through six editions.

Vardill's next publication thanked Charlotte, Princess of Wales , for the patronage of her first fruits.

Among a number of other women, BH mourned an unexpected royal death in verse in The Funeral. A Monody to the Memory of Princess Charlotte.

JA declined James Stanier Clarke 's invitation to write a historical romance about the royal house of Saxe-Coburg—which would have been radically unlike her almost-finished Persuasion.

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...

ALB drafted a blank-verse elegy for Princess Charlotte —which suggests that the reception of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven had not completely silenced her.

The title poem in The Confession retells a story from The Spectator no. 164, of parted lovers who meet again when she is a convent novice and he her confessor. Thomas presents with imaginative sympathy...

In Laura's Dream, a little girl with a fever tells her mother how she has dreamed of a visit to the moon, where people—or what a recent critic calls lunar humanoids—are...

Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign, looking to Charlotte to...

She expresses intimate feelings freely, not only in the Mourning Journal for her son. Weeks after her daughter's death she uses moving, traditionally gendered imagery to lament that a daughter is a benignant star...

She writes on public themes with equal panache, attacking colonial appropriations and in another poem calling Warren Hastings an oppressed hero. She addresses public men and women, and here too is attentive to women's issues...

Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte (The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III and the Duke of Kent (The Eldest King...

This heterogenous collection addresses a number of political topics: slavery, labour relations, women artisans, the price of bread, and the death of Princess Charlotte , Our much-lov'd hope.The East justifies British takeover...