King George I

Standard Name: George I, King

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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 Production Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
MADH issued her first novel, Savile House: An Historical Romance of the Time of George the First, in two volumes under the name Addlestone Hill (a coded reference to her home at Addlestone in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Haywood
The subtitle suggests some knowledge of John Webster's early seventeenth-century tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, though the husband of Webster's persecuted heroine (of a disgracefully lower rank than herself) is true and loving...
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 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 Elizabeth Tollet
A New Ballad (like almost all answers to Lord Dorset 's cavalier ballad To all You Ladies now at Land) is written from a strongly gender-conscious point of view as well as a Tory...
Violence Teresia Constantia Phillips
TCP 's account firmly states that, though she had been out with Mr Grimes (to see a firework display in honour of George I 's return from Hanover), she flatly refused him sex. Over the...

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