King George II

Standard Name: George II, King

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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/.
Mary, Countess Cowper,. “Introduction”. Diary, edited by Charles Spencer Cowper, John Murray, p. v - xvi.
xi, xiv
She must have preserved the latter as evidence that she...
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...
Textual Features Charlotte McCarthy
CMC here uses a jaunty six-line stanza to complain of corrupt politicians. She also uses some scurrility.
Feminist Companion Archive.
She tells Bedford that if, as expected, he becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (as he did on 15...
politics Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
She frequented both of the incompatible court circles—those of the king and of the Prince and Princess of Wales —apparently in search of a power base.
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...
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
MO published in Blackwoods her Historical Sketches of the Reign of George II, whose subjects include Queen Caroline (his wife) and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
341
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...

Timeline

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.
12
, 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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