King George II

Standard Name: George II, King

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Textual Production Mary Countess Cowper
She spared the part covering the first two years, and what she had written for 1720 (mostly the months of April and May).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cowper, Mary, Countess. “Introduction”. Diary, edited by Charles Spencer Cowper, John Murray, 1864, p. v - xvi.
xi, xiv
She must have preserved the latter as evidence that she...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
In The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania, EH mounted an anonymous, thinly-disguised attack on the morals and circle of the Prince of Wales, the future George II ...
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 OroonokoThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 47-66.
51
watched by two Africans who had shared the hero's fate of betrayal into slavery.
Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and OroonokoThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 47-66.
51-3 and n15, 20

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.
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.
67

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.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
490
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
2: 423 and note

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.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
50-4

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.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
426
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
46

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.
Gilmour, Ian. “Fuss, Fatigue and Rage”. London Review of Books, 15 July 1999, pp. 11-12.
11

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 .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

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