Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England

Standard Name: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,, Queen of England
Used Form: Queen Charlotte Sophia
Used Form: Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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Textual Production Henrietta Battier
Soon afterwards (though at a later age than the fifteen years which she claimed) she embarked on complimentary occasional verse in the form of an elegy for Lady Townshend (wife of the then fourth Viscount and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Boyle
MB 's mother, Caroline Emilia (Poyntz) Boyle (whose second name her daughter spells Amelia) held the position of bed-chamber woman to Queen Charlotte .
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray.
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Occupation Frances Burney
FB betook herself, with a visit en route to Mary Delany , to begin her work as Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte .
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press.
171
Dedications Frances Burney
FB had worked on the story told in this novel since before her marriage. The heroine had been called variously Betulia, Arietta, and Clarinda.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press.
205, 209
The final product was dedicated to Queen Charlotte Sophia
Leisure and Society Lady Eleanor Butler
By now the Plas Newydd grounds of Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the Ladies of Llangollen, were so famous that, by request, they sent plans to Queen Charlotte .
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph.
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Publishing Cassandra, Lady Hawke
It seems to have been a success, judging from a Dublin edition and a French translation the same year, and a German translation in 1789.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 439
Once the novel was published, CLHdesired permission...
Textual Production Mary Collyer
After silent years MC published a translation of The Death of Abel from the German of Salomon Gessner , with a dedication to the queen .
Feminist Companion Archive.
Dedications Hannah Cowley
Thereafter she stayed with Covent Garden for her major works. She was paid £100 to delay publishing this play, presumably to keep the public's appetite on edge.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 319
It appeared with a dedication to...
Textual Features Maria De Fleury
Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...
Occupation Mary Delany
Queen Charlotte , a personal friend of MD , recorded Delany's gift to her of one of her most remarkable artefacts, an album of cut-paper portrait silhouettes, which Delany had done from life.
Pelling, Madeleine. “Crafting Friendship: Mary Delany’s Album and Queen Charlotte’s Pocketbook”. Journal 18, a journal of eighteenth-century art and culture.
Friends, Associates Mary Delany
Back in England in her second widowhood, MD was a frequent visitor to her lifelong, very close friend the Duchess of Portland . The duchess, an amateur scientist of unusual talent and achievement, brought MD
Friends, Associates Mary Delany
MD continued to make new friends late in life (though she was said to have declined to meet Hester Thrale ).
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
60
The king and queen were remarkably attentive to her in her widowhood. Prominent...
Textual Production Mary Delany
The original manuscript, with the author's illustrations, is in the Lilly Library , Indiana University , while a fair copy made twenty years or so after composition, as a presentation gift to Queen Charlotte is...
Textual Features Mary Deverell
Each of the seven sermons in this edition has a topic, and an introductory verse quotation: from Young , Milton , Prior , Blair , Thomson , and Pope . MD 's repeated claims to...
Publishing Olaudah Equiano
OE delivered a petition to Queen Charlotte , on behalf of my African brethren, for ending the slave trade.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
He argued that trading in manufactured goods would be more profitable as well as more...

Timeline

20 May 1761: George III consented to marry Princess Charlotte...

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20 May 1761

George III consented to marry Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ; formal proposals began.

8 July 1761: The engagement of George III and Princess...

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8 July 1761

The engagement of George III and Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was announced at a Privy Council meeting.

22 September 1761: King George III and Queen Charlotte were...

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22 September 1761

King George III and Queen Charlotte were crowned; Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray each left a vivid account of the occasion, while Catherine Talbot wrote a prose poem about non-attendance, about spending a festal day...

11 June 1788: George III, at the resort town of Cheltenham,...

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11 June 1788

George III , at the resort town of Cheltenham, publicly suffered preliminary symptoms leading up to his second attack of porphyria, which began on 17 October.

23 April 1789: A solemn service of thanksgiving for the...

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23 April 1789

A solemn service of thanksgiving for the recovery of George III was held in St Paul's Cathedral.

9 June 1792: Gillray published a remarkable political...

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9 June 1792

Gillray published a remarkable political cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil: personified versions of Queen Charlotte , William Pitt , and Lord Thurlow .

1812: The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society was...

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1812

The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society was founded, to provide charity to London's poor.

June 1816: Lady Isabella King opened at Bailbrook House...

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June 1816

Lady Isabella King opened at Bailbrook House near Bath a communal home for single gentlewomen (or Protestant nunnery): a project going back to Mary Astell , which King picked up from Sarah Scott 's Millenium Hall.

November 1818: George III's wife, Queen Charlotte, died...

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November 1818

George III 's wife, Queen Charlotte , died.

9 June 1819: The library of the late Queen Charlotte was...

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9 June 1819

The library of the late Queen Charlotte was auctioned by Christie's ; it included Jane Austen 's works, plus titles by Catherine Cuthbertson , Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , Christian Isobel Johnstone , Alethea Lewis

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