King George I

Standard Name: George I, King

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Publishing Susanna Centlivre
It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester,
Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols.
1 (no. 1): 4
with a dedication to the future George I . This political gamble (with Queen Anne still on...
Textual Features Elinor James
James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate...
Textual Features Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
Here she relates the romantic tale of the marriage of Marie Casimire Clémentine Sobieski (or Clementina Sobieska) to James Edward Stuart , known to British history as the Old Pretender. She draws her material from...
Textual Features Delarivier Manley
This play, set in Britain after the imperial Romans had left, deals with the usurpation of a throne (in this case by the tyrant Vortigern , with allusion to George I ), and features strong...
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 Elinor James
In This Day Ought Never to be Forgotten, being the Proclamation Day for Queen Elizabeth, EJ presented a role-model to the new King George .
The date was that of Elizabeth's accession.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Textual Production Elinor James
In Mrs. James's Thanks to the Lords and Commons for their great Sincerity to King George, EJ again marked an anniversary in national political life and in her career as its interpreter.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
An anonymous Poem on the Arrival of the King , Address'd to His Majesty, published by J. Morphew , has been attributed to EB , but cannot be hers if she is correctly identified here.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Textual Production Jane Brereton
JB published her first free-standing poem, as a Lady: The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace , Imitated: and apply'd to the King.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
78
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Textual Production Agnes Wheeler
Mention in the first dialogue of George III 's illness shows that it was written in 1788 or later.
Wheeler, Agnes. “Introduction”. Westmorland Dialogues, edited by Leonard Smith, Lensden, 2011.
2
AW 's first edition consisted of three dialogues; she added a fourth for a new...
Textual Production Susanna Centlivre
SC opened a series of Hanoverian poems with A Poem. Humbly Presented to His Most Sacred Majesty George . . . upon his Accession to the Throne.
The title-page of this publication bears the...
Textual Production Jane Porter
It was published by Longman in three volumes.
Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824, 3 vols., http://U of A, Special Collections.
title-page
The king was said to have suggested the topic.
Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824, 3 vols., http://U of A, Special Collections.
1: v-viii
It seems, therefore, that JP , in turning to the House of Brunswick for a...
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 Sarah Lady Piers
Sarah, Lady Piers, welcomed the arrival of a new monarch in George for Britain, a poem published with her name in two formats, one lavish (fine paper, wider margins) and one more ordinary.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Textual Production Mary Countess Cowper
MCC and her husband exchanged affectionate letters from before their marriage. Some years before George I succeeded to the English throne she established contact with his chief minister, Baron Bernstorff , by letter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Her correspondence...

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