Princess Charlotte Augusta

It brought HM flattering personal attention from the royal family. Early admirers supposed it to have been written by a man. The Critical, reviewing it on this basis, wished it had looked at...

AOK wrote the dedication, in a poetical address, of her novel Llewellin: A Tale to the eight-month-old Princess Charlotte (after which the novel took another three years to get published).

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...

This novel was the last book that Princess Charlotte was reading aloud with her husband before her untimely death in childbirth in November 1817. Prince Leopold preserved the copy, with the page turned down where...

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...

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. Writing it just after...

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).

This was not MS 's only effusion for the princess : she also published The Unexpected and Affecting Death of . . . Princess Charlotte, undated.

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...