Fraser, Flora. The Unruly Queen. The Life of Queen Caroline. Knopf.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Travel | Mary Harcourt | MH
arrived in Hanover from Osnabruck to join the suite of Fraser, Flora. The Unruly Queen. The Life of Queen Caroline. Knopf. 52 James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury,. Diaries and Correspondence. Editor Malmesbury, James Howard Harris, R. Bentley. 3: 211 |
Occupation | Mary Harcourt | MH
occupied a court position during the anxious time when George III
was first attacked by apparent insanity. She seems to have been the one responsible for recommending Dr Francis Willis
as his physician. Harcourt, Mary. “Diary of the Court of King George III”. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society. 3n1 |
Travel | Mary Harcourt | The banks of the Thames were lined with cheering spectators. At Greenwich the royal party got into coaches (after a small crisis about another lady-in-waiting who claimed that facing backwards in the coach would make... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Harcourt | The printed diary begins with the crucial days during which the disturbed king gave signs of convalescence, just in time for the withdrawal of the Regency Bill which would have put the government into the... |
Textual Production | Mary Harcourt | Her last letters in the collection relate her expedition to escort Harcourt, Edward William, editor. The Harcourt Papers. 4: 628-44 passim |
Dedications | Felicia Hemans | The attractive quarto volume, printed in Liverpool for T. Cadell and W. Davies
in London, was dedicated with permission to the Prince of Wales
. It had 977 other subscribers, including Captain Alfred Hemans |
Textual Features | Felicia Hemans | This was a topical subject given the Napoleonic wars which had involved Britain (and FH
's brothers and fiancé) in fighting in Spain and Portugal. The twenty-eight-page poem, dedicated with permission to the Prince of Wales |
Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | BH
published a pamphlet on the quarrel between George IV
and Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 70 |
politics | Leigh Hunt | |
Reception | Elizabeth Inchbald | It was requested for performance by the king
and attended by the Prince of Wales
. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 34 |
Occupation | Ellis Cornelia Knight | |
Employer | 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. 114 |
Employer | Ellis Cornelia Knight | The Regent
made no complaint about ECK
at her dismissal, but it would appear that the dismissal was related to Princess Charlotte's decision that she would not marry a prince who seemed likely to subordinate... |
politics | Lady Caroline Lamb | Probably inspired by the example of her aunt the Duchess of Devonshire
, she wrote letters, canvassed in taverns, and exchanged kisses for votes. Being even more notorious already than her aunt, she had less... |
Textual Production | Mary Latter | ML
wrote A Lyric Ode, on the Birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (later George IV
), which she published in 1763. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
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