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Dedications | Jane Austen | About a month before Emma appeared (on 23 December, with 1816 on its title-page), JA
wrote to ascertain whether it was actually incumbent on Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press. 26 Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press. 26 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Anne Barnard | Lady Anne lived much of her life in fashionable society, and her acquaintance was very wide. In Edinburgh in her early twenties she impressed and delighted Samuel Johnson
with an impromptu and complimentary bon mot... |
Dedications | Maria Barrell | An Advertisement notes that she had to find another printer after the first one let her down. Writing, she says, in the sad regions of a living grave, she dedicates her work to George, Prince of Wales |
Textual Production | Henrietta Battier | The marriage of the Prince of Wales
provoked HB
to publish (as Pat. T. Pindar) a satire, Marriage Ode Royal. Battier, Henrietta. Marriage Ode Royal. Sold at No. 17, Fade Street. title-page |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Beverley | The Coronation Sermon (a work of which EB
seems to have been particularly proud, about the crowning of George IV
and the surrounding scandal) apparently bore the dignified title A Glass for Kings. Beverley, Elizabeth. Odd Thoughts. Printed for the authoress. title-page OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Occupation | William Lisle Bowles | WLB
's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith
and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied... |
Textual Production | Lady Charlotte Bury | LCB
, under the anonymity of a Lady of Rank, published the challengingly-titled The Murdered Queen! or, Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 431 |
Textual Production | Lady Charlotte Bury | LCB
anonymously issued a Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth, a larger selection from her court writings. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 65 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Dedications | Emily Frederick Clark | It was dedicated by permission to the Prince of Wales
and its subscription was advertised at the back of other books. The advertisement says: An appeal to the sympathetic feelings of a liberal public would... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Dacre | CD
returned to poetry, publishing George IV
, A Poem . . . To which are added, lyrics, designed for various melodies. Feminist Companion Archive. |
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 |
Publishing | Harriet Downing | It is dedicated to HD
's beloved Cousin Louisa G—. Subscribers included George IV
, and Prince Leopold
(widower of Princess Charlotte), Lord Sidmouth
, many members of the Bourne family and several residents of... |
Literary Setting | Daphne Du Maurier | The novel was set during the period when King George III
was suffering from mental incapacity, and his eldest son
was Regent.Mary Anne Clarke
, who was mistress to the king's second son, was... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, probably found it easier in Rome than in London to have her rank taken at face value, without reference to her sexually dubious career. When the rejected |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | As hostess she entertained a talented and faintly bohemian circle. The Prince of Wales
came to breakfast, but some ladies at the head of society found her not sufficiently respectable to visit. George III
felt... |
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