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
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...
