Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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Wealth and Poverty | Mary Delany | After Margaret, Duchess of Portland, died in 1785, MD
must have felt the pinch. She had not taken regular money from her friend, but her long stays in the hospitable household at Bulstrode must have... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Holford | A poem prefacing Wallace addresses a friend of Holford named Miss Gertrude Louisa Allen
(and includes a tribute to King George
the Good, his people's friend). A prose preface asserts the writer's English patriotism to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Jane Vardill | Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte
(The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III
and the Duke of Kent
(The Eldest King... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Gilding | The poems in pastoral form include religious meditations, hymns for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian festivals, love complaints, and addresses to abstracts such as Pride and Sincerity. Despair is a dramatic mini-narrative, beginning Moments on... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Inchbald | The controversial feature in this work was the depiction of King George III
as a stingy nobleman (who, however, was not without some good points). Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 97-8 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Jebb | She felt with the Foxite Whigs that the king
was guilty of folly, mismanagement, and Stuart-like behaviour, and was interfering unwarrantably with the processes of government. Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , pp. 597 - 604, 661. 601 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Green | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
produces for this much-lamented occasion a simple, dignified poem: perceptive about the workings of public feeling, and remarkable for its reminder that a tear should be spared for the mad grandfather George III
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Latter | The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler
). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!, Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher. 1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Burney | Among the pleasures of FB
's life-writing are the way it revels in nonce-words and other innovative uses of language, and the play it makes with dramatic techniques like scene-setting and dialogue. Many famous passages... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first-named is George I
's rejected queen
(accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover
was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel... |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | Bristol Public Library
's copy of AY
's Poems, on Several Occasions, first edition, incorporates a dozen manuscript poems, including To The King
: On His Majesty's arrival at Cheltenham 1788. Ferguson, Moira. “The Unpublished Poems of Ann Yearsley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 13-46. 13-14 |
Textual Production | Lucille Iremonger | LI
published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia
, daughter of George III
(who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria
's daughters in 1982. In 1981... |
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