Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of England

ECK , in her new position as lady of the bedchamber to Queen Charlotte , became a resident of Windsor Castle.

She visited Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and the battlefield of Waterloo. She also visited Charlemagne 's cathedral at Aiz-la-Chapelle or Aachen, as well as the Rhine and surrounding region...

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...

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...

An embedded narrative places the novel's main story at two removes from the reader, during the youth of the elderly internal narrator, which coincides with the French Revolution. The Revolution (which provides a further...

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

After silent years MC published a translation of The Death of Abel from the German of Salomon Gessner , with a dedication to the queen .

It reached a second edition within the year. Its full title is The History of Mecklenburgh, from the First Settlement of the Vandals in that Country, to the Present Time; Including a Period of...

MR composed two remarkable political poems: The Birth-Day (about public celebrations for Queen Charlotte ) and January 1795, about the month's headline news.

The dedication imagines writers aspiring to the honour of influencing the baby Charlotte: I taught the maid! cries each exulting Muse. It praises the royal family indiscriminately: the present king and queen , and...

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...

CF was one of several women artists patronised by Queen Charlotte . Another was Caroline Watson , with whom Fanshawe sometimes worked.

Late in the volume the longest poem she had ever attempted, Diana, comes with 4-page prefatory Remarks by Daniel Turner (F.): he says he wrote this classic of humble deference at her...

The printed diary begins with the crucial days during which the disturbed king gave signs of convalescence, just in time for the withdrawal of the Regency Bill which would have put the government into the...