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Publishing | Regina Maria Roche | RMR
dedicated this work to Major-General Sir Adam Williamson
, a career soldier who had very recently returned to England after a spell as governor-general of Jamaica. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 691 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Williamson |
Publishing | Lady Charlotte Bury | Her full title was Diary illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth, interspersed with original letters from the late |
politics | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
's desire that the princess
(eventual heir to the throne) should learn to think for herself, allied her with the hope of the nation (perhaps especially strong among women) that the princess would prove... |
Occupation | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
's position as a lady companion to Princess Charlotte
was complicated by the intention of the princess's father, the Regent
, to keep his daughter as long as possible a child. Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960. 114 |
Occupation | Ellis Cornelia Knight | |
Occupation | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
was dismissed from the service of Princess Charlotte
, the month after the princess had broken off her engagement to William, Prince of Orange
. Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960. 186 |
Occupation | Maria Riddell | In the same year, 1803, she was suggested by Thomas Erskine
as a suitable person to become governess to the seven-year-old Princess Charlotte
, who stood second in line for the British throne. She wrote... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | It brought HM
flattering personal attention from the royal family. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 187-8 |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
remained in London after her dismissal in order to be able to contradict any untrue reports that might surface in the press. It was during this time that she agreed to pass letters between... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | After her return she paid several visits to Princess Charlotte
, who was by now married to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg
. These visits were brief, however, and Prince Leopold made it clear that he... |
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, 1910–1959, 14 vols. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
's father, Denis Murphy
, was appointed Painter in Enamel to Princess Charlotte
(daughter of the future George IV and Queen Caroline) and provided with an apartment in Windsor Castle. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967. 11 |
Dedications | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
's second published volume, The Pleasures of Human Life, a poem titled in a form which had become something of a cliché, bore her name and was dedicated to Princess Charlotte
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 448 Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 166 Vardill, Anna Jane. The Pleasures of Human Life. A Poem. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. prelims |
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... |
Dedications | Anna Jane Vardill | The full title was Poems and Translations from the Minor Greek Poets and Others: written chiefly between the ages of ten and sixteen. The volume was supplied with two title-pages, one conventionally printed and... |
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