Wheeler, Agnes. “Introduction”. Westmorland Dialogues, edited by Leonard Smith, Lensden.
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King George I
Standard Name: George I, King
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Agnes Wheeler | Mention in the first dialogue of George III
's illness shows that it was written in 1788 or later. |
| 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/. |
| Textual Production | Mary, Countess Cowper | At the turning point of George I
's accession, Lord Cowper
established his position in the new political landscape through A Treatise on the State of Parties (otherwise known as An Impartial History of Parties... |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| Publishing | Susanna Centlivre | It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot. 1 (no. 1): 4 |
| Author summary | Sarah, Lady Piers | Sarah, Lady Piers,
authored five known poems between 1698 and 1714. They include verses prefixed to another's work, an elegy, and two occasional celebrations: one of some admirable ladies and one a Whiggish poem celebrating... |
| Author summary | Mary, Countess Cowper | Most of MCC
's extant writings were produced with some immediate political purpose. Even her loving letters to her husband are attentive to the state of the nation and to his career within it. Other... |
| politics | Mary Caesar | Gyllenborg had spent most of the summer of 1716 staying with Charles
and Mary Caesar at Benington. He and Charles Caesar were both arrested early in 1717, and Caesar once again incarcerated in the... |
| politics | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William, first Earl Cowper |
| politics | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
spent an exciting time in London as a member of the Whig elite now in power under George I
. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 82ff, 117 |
| politics | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | WMCN
had little hope she could secure a pardon for a Catholic rebel, but nevertheless she tried. She drummed up support, appeared regularly in the gallery at the House of Lords
, organized a petition... |
| Occupation | Sir Richard Steele | He had already been an army officer, a court official, the holder of a civil service post, and a member of parliament. He was knighted by George I
in 1715. |
| Occupation | Mary, Countess Cowper | In the distribution of favours that marked King George
's accession, MCC
was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to his daughter-in-law Caroline of Anspach
, now Princess of Wales. Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray. 6-7 |
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