Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Reception | Jane Austen | Sixteen-year-old Princess Charlotte
wrote, Maryanne & me are very alike in disposition, that certainly I am not so good, the same imprudence, &c however remain very like. Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking. 220 |
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 |
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. Beverley, Elizabeth. Modern Times. Printed for the author. |
Dedications | Margaret Bryan | The work was based on a series of thirteen lectures given at her school. It was dedicated to Princess Charlotte
and to Charles Hutton
, scientist and writer, and published by subscription. Subscribers included 157... |
Publishing | Lady Charlotte Bury | Her full title was Diary illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth, interspersed with original letters from the late |
Textual Production | Margaret Croker | MC
published, with her name, A Monody on the Lamented Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte
-Augusta of Wales and of Saxe Cobourg Saalfield. Croker, Margaret. A Monody on the Lamented Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte-Augusta of Wales and of Saxe Cobourg Saalfield. Edmund Lloyd; J. Booth. title-page |
Publishing | Harriet Downing | A sentimental frontispiece features five putti disporting themselves in the clouds. Since the poem later refers to these as the youthful Muses who inspire, Downing, Harriet. Mary; or, Female Friendship. James Harper. 6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Gore | CG
's relation by marriage the Countess of Arran
had been governess to Princess Charlotte
and was described as a leader of fashion. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. |
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 |
Dedications | Elizabeth Gunning | The prose dedication to Princess Charlotte
emphasised EG
's worthiness by mentioning her father and her famous (and noble) aunts. She added a further dedicatory poem to the princess, entitled The Fable of the Trees... |
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 | 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 |
Publishing | Felicia Hemans | FH
published her Stanzas on the National Calamity, the Death of the Princess Charlotte in Blackwood's Magazine. Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, p. xiii - xxix; various pages. 480n3 Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, p. xi - xxxiii. xvi |
Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | 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. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 68-9 |
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