Beverley, Elizabeth. Modern Times. Printed for the author.
Princess Charlotte Augusta
Standard Name: Charlotte Augusta, Princess
Used Form: Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales
Used Form: Princess Charlotte
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Kelty | Her first subject is Princess Charlotte
. After that MAK
includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce
, whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly
in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey
, Lady Rachel Russell |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Beverley | She takes as text the very alarming words of Jeremiah v. 29, in which God declares vengeance on the Jewish nation. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Thomas | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | 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— Kittredge, Katharine. “Melesina Chenevix St. John Trench (1768-1827)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol. 10 , No. 2, pp. 4-6. 6 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | 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, Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne. 48 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Martha Hale | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Jane Vardill | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Harvey | 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. Harvey, Jane. Fugitive Pieces. Currie and Bowman. 48-50 |
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... |
Textual Production | Jane Austen | 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 invitation was intended to compliment Princess Charlotte |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
drafted a blank-verse elegy for Princess Charlotte
—which suggests that the reception of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven had not completely silenced her. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. 323n |
Textual Production | Ellis Cornelia Knight | The Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight
, Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales
. With Extracts From Her Journals and Anecdote Books was published posthumously in two volumes. Fulford, Roger, and Ellis Cornelia Knight. “Introduction”. The Autobiography of Miss Knight, William Kimber. introduction, 16 Sharpe’s London Magazine. T. B. Sharpe; Virtue, Hall, and Virtue. (December 1861): 333 |
Textual Production | Mary Stockdale | MS
dated the advertisement to A Wreath for the Urn, An Elegy on Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales
and Saxe Coburg (who had died on 6 November). British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Stockdale, Mary. A Wreath for the Urn. Mary Stockdale. |
Textual Production | Mary Stockdale | This was not MS
's only effusion for the princess
: she also published The Unexpected and Affecting Death of . . . Princess Charlotte, undated. Behrendt, Stephen C. Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte. Macmillan. 131n9 |
Timeline
7 January 1796: Princess Charlotte was born to the Prince...
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7 January 1796
1804: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) was...
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1804
The Prince of Wales
(later George IV) was given full custody of his daughter Princess Charlotte
; George III
(her grandfather) became her guardian.
1804: The Chester Chronicle reported that drawers...
Building item
1804
The Chester Chronicle reported that drawers (knickers or underpants) were now the fashion for English ladies.
By June 1810: Eaton Stannard Barrett (famous for his later...
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By June 1810
Eaton Stannard Barrett
(famous for his later parody novel The Heroine) entered the field of commentary on gender issues with Woman, A Poem.
20 July 1815: Madame Vestris made her operatic debut as...
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20 July 1815
Madame Vestris
made her operatic debut as the leading lady of the King's Theatre
, aged only eighteen.
May 1816: Princess Charlotte (daughter of the Prince...
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May 1816
6 November 1817: Princess Charlotte died at 2.30 a.m. after...
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6 November 1817
Princess Charlotte
died at 2.30 a.m. after delivering a stillborn son. Poor clinical judgement was to blame; intense national mourning and controversy followed.
1818: The successful children's writer Elizabeth...
Women writers item
1818
The successful children's writerElizabeth Sandham
published The School-Fellows, a Moral Tale, which devotes a chapter to commemoration of Princess Charlotte
(who had died on 6 November 1817).
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