King George IV

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...

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 Queen Caroline arrived in...

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...

A sentimental frontispiece features five putti disporting themselves in the clouds. Since the poem later refers to these as the youthful Muses who inspire, it seems that they represent HD 's children. Downing dedicated...

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...

CD returned to poetry, publishing George IV , A Poem . . . To which are added, lyrics, designed for various melodies.

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...

LCB , under the anonymity of a Lady of Rank, published the challengingly-titled The Murdered Queen! or, Caroline of Brunswick. A Diary of the Court of George IV: the title-page said 1838.

LCB anonymously issued a Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth, a larger selection from her court writings.

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...

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.

The marriage of the Prince of Wales provoked HB to publish (as Pat. T. Pindar) a satire, Marriage Ode Royal.

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

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...

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 her to dedicate it to the Prince of Wales .