John King

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Standard Name: King, John,, 1753 - 1824
Used Form: Jacob Rey

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Dedications Charlotte Dacre
Her first published work was Trifles of Helicon, written jointly with her sister Sophia King , which had a dedication to their father dated 14 January 1798, and was out by March. It called...
Dedications Sophia King
SK and her sister Charlotte Dacre wrote the dedication to their father of their poetry volume Trifles of Helicon, published this year.
SK 's next work of poetry gave the title of this one...
Family and Intimate relationships Maria Barrell
The witnesses who signed the register were Jardine of Applegarth (presumably Sir Alexander, fourth Baronet , a Knight of Malta), John King (who may have been the extraordinary self-made Jewish radical financier of that name...
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Dacre
John King , father of CD and Sophia King , published a hard-hitting sociopolitical analysis, Thoughts on the Difficulties and Distresses . . . .
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Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Dacre
John King , father of CD and of Sophia King , divorced their mother (using a rabbinical court at Leghorn in Italy) and married an English countess.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11 -36.
12
McCalman, Ian. Radical Underworld. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
36-7
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Dacre
John King , father of CD and Sophia King , dated a letter to Tom Paine on political developments in France.
King, John, and Thomas Paine. Mr King’s Speech at Egham. Printed by C. Boult for J. Debrett , 1793.
10-16
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Dacre
John King , father of CD and Sophia King , issued two self-justifying political manifestos: Mr. King's Apology and Oppression Deemed No Injustice Towards Some Individuals.
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Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Dacre
John King , father of CD and Sophia King , visited Paris: he was escaping creditors, but also making political observations.
Rubens, Alfred. “John King”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society, pp. 36 - 9.
38
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 37 (1803): 42
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Dacre
CD 's father was born Jacob Rey , a Portuguese Sephardic Jew in London. Tom Paine the radical later recalled that as a poor and friendless child in Ailiffe-Street, an obscure part of the...
Family and Intimate relationships Sophia King
In SK 's life, as in her sister's, their father, John King , the former Jacob Rey, loomed large. He was a self-made man, a money-lender, a political radical and associate of Wilkes , the...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Robinson
MR 's alleged sexual liaison with Jewish financier, money-lender, and radical John King (father of the writers Charlotte Dacre and Sophia King , who at this time were barely out of infancy) seems to have...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Dacre
The authors dutifully thank their father for his care of their education. Pieces by the two sisters mostly alternate; last comes a run of five of Charlotte's. Their content is much like that of Charlotte's...

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