Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England

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...

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.

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

MD continued to make new friends late in life (though she was said to have declined to meet Hester Thrale ). The king and queen were remarkably attentive to her in her widowhood. Prominent...

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...

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...

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. It appeared with a dedication to...

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 seems to have been a success, judging from a Dublin edition and a French translation the same year, and a German translation in 1789. Once the novel was published, CLHdesired permission...

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 .

FB betook herself, with a visit en route to Mary Delany , to begin her work as Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte .

FB had worked on the story told in this novel since before her marriage. The heroine had been called variously Betulia, Arietta, and Clarinda. The final product was dedicated to Queen Charlotte Sophia

MB 's mother, Caroline Emilia (Poyntz) Boyle (whose second name her daughter spells Amelia) held the position of bed-chamber woman to Queen Charlotte .

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