King George II

Standard Name: George II, King

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Textual Production Penelope Aubin
PA 's History of Genghizcan the Great, translated from the French of François Pétis de la Croix , appeared in 1722, dedicated to the Prince of Wales . Both Debbie Welham and Eighteenth-Century Collections...
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
EB published an anonymous pamphlet containing her two poems on George II 's victory at the battle of Dettingen on 16 June.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
Textual Production Grisell Murray
Few of GM 's letters survive, but in winter 1737-8 she was writing to her uncle Alexander, Earl of Marchmont (the little brother Sandy of her memoir about her mother).
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie.
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She offered him shrewd...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Brereton
The title-page quotes Guarini . It comments on various political and topical issues, such as the estrangement between George I and the Prince of Wales and a plan for founding a girls' school (on both...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary, Countess Cowper
Much of the diary is filled with reports of jockeying for personal power: the names dropped are those of people forming and breaking alliances. By spring 1716 it has become gradually more expansive on topics...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Haywood
This magazine has a second supposed author: the parrot, who is male. This creature, born in Java, has seen the world, since its long life has been spent with fifty-five different families successively. Though not...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
The first event she records was an ultimatum from the Prince of Wales to his father, George II , whom he enraged by demanding Walpole's removal. She describes how, after Walpole fell, power struggles among...

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1 February 1749: The Behn-Southerne play of Oroonoko had the...

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1 February 1749

The Behn -Southerne play of Oroonoko had the single most important performance . . . in its long history
Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Oroonoko</span&gt”;. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
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, AMS Press, pp. 47-66.
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watched by two Africans who had shared the hero's fate of betrayal into slavery.

1 May 1749: Elizabeth Chudleigh created a sensation by...

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1 May 1749

Elizabeth Chudleigh created a sensation by appearing at a masquerade in the character of Iphigenia, in a dress so transparent that she was as good as naked.

January 1750: English roads and streets were hotbeds of...

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January 1750

English roads and streets were hotbeds of crime, said Horace Walpole , because of destitute disbanded soldiers and sailors.

June 1757: Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia lost...

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June 1757

Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia lost half his army (30,000 of his best troops), at Kolin in Bohemia.

25 October 1760: King George II died suddenly of a heart attack;...

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25 October 1760

King George II died suddenly of a heart attack; his grandson George III assumed the throne.

1772: The Royal Marriages Act made it illegal for...

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1772

The Royal Marriages Act made it illegal for any descendant of George II to marry without the king's permission.

1827: Henry Hallam published The Constitutional...

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1827

Henry Hallam published The Constitutional History of England, his influential history extending to the death of George II .

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