Harcourt, Mary. “Diary of the Court of King George III”. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 1871–1872.
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King George III
Standard Name: George III, King
Used Form: Prince of Wales
Used Form: George the Third
Used Form: Prince George
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Ham | In her teens EH
made up romantic stories for herself on the slightest opportunity. She attached several to George III
's daughter Princess Sophia
, who was suspected of having an illegitimate child. Meeting a... |
| Textual Production | Mary Harcourt | MH
composed the earliest entry to be included nearly a hundred years later when her journal of life at Court was printed as Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III. |
| Textual Production | Mary Harcourt | MH
composed the latest entry to be included in Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III. Harcourt, Mary. “Diary of the Court of King George III”. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 1871–1872. 3 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Cobbold | The frontispiece features a portrait of the cookery writer Hannah Glasse
(drawn by EC
herself), who is heroicised in the text. This poem answers The Sovereign, a poem by Charles Small Pybus
, addressed... |
| Textual Production | Mary Latter | |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | The series of watercolours by EPS
which her husband presented to George III
are now in the British Library
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Percy Bysshe Shelley | PBS
published his second book of poetry, Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson
. Being poems found amongst the papers of that noted female who attempted the life of the King
in 1786. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 3d ser. 21 (1810): 448 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Mary Harcourt | The Philobiblon Society
published just under sixty pages of MH
's Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III as item six in volume 13 of Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, probably edited... |
| Textual Production | Mary Collier | MC
, aged seventy-one, wrote the last datable poem in her volume Poems, on Several Occasions: On the Marriage of George the Third. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George III |
| Textual Production | Sarah Scott | It reached a second edition within the year. Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv. xliv |
| Textual Production | Sarah Gardner | SG
wrote a poem entitled On the American Disturbance . . . To the King, which she preserved in her manuscript album: the earliest dated among her writings. Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Gardner: "Such Trumpery" or ‘A Lustre to Her Sex’?”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 7 , 1988, pp. 7-25. 16 |
| 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, 1 Mar.–31 May 1993, pp. 13-46. 13-14 |
| 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 | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The dedication imagines writers aspiring to the honour of influencing the baby Charlotte: I taught the maid! cries each exulting Muse. O’Keeffe, Adelaide. Llewellin. Cawthorn, 1799, 3 vols. prelims |
Timeline
1780: Sir David Hamilton was knighted by King George...
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1780
Sir David Hamilton
was knighted by King George III
: the first obstetrician to be so honoured.
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth Century England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
451
1780: James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as...
Writing climate item
1780
James Harrison
(hitherto chiefly known as a music publisher) began to issue the handsomely-produced Novelists' Magazine, a weekly serial reprinting of canonical novels.
Shevlin, Elinor. “’It is the intention of the Editor’: Griffith’s, Harrison’s, and Cooke’s collections and the making of the English novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 21 Apr. 2001.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 1023
27 February 1782: The House of Commons, on news of the British...
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27 February 1782
The House of Commons
, on news of the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, urged George III
to end the war with the United States.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
133
19 December 1783: George III invited William Pitt the younger,...
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19 December 1783
George III
invited William Pitt
the younger, Tory leader, to form the government; Pitt
's previous ministry had been defeated on a vote in the House of Lords
.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
22
2 August 1786: A working-class woman named Margaret Nicholson...
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2 August 1786
A working-class woman named Margaret Nicholson
tried to stab George III
with a knife outside St James's Palace; she had no political motive.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
56 (1786): 708
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.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
3
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
329, 342
5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...
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5 November 1788-10 March 1789
George III
's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales
.
Foreman, Amanda. “A politician’s politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the Whig party”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 179-04.
188-9
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
19 February 1789: Parliament was informed that George III was...
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19 February 1789
Parliament was informed that George III
was in a state of convalescence; the Regency Bill which had passed the Commons on the 13th never completed its passage.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
345
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.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
158
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
14: 124n1
1792: Bennelong, an Australian aboriginal who had...
Building item
1792
Bennelong
, an Australian aboriginal who had been kidnapped by Arthur Phillip
, Governor of Australia, visited England, where he was presented to the king
.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
33-4 and n91
29 October 1795: A crowd surrounded George III's coach on...
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29 October 1795
A crowd surrounded George III
's coach on its way to the state opening of parliament
; someone threw a stone.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
241
Russell, Gillian. “Burke’s Dagger: Theatricality, Politics and Print Culture in the 1790s”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
20
, 1997, pp. 1-16. 14
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
386
15 May 1800: King George III narrowly escaped death when...
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15 May 1800
King George III
narrowly escaped death when a bullet aimed for him lodged in the pillar of his box at Drury Lane Theatre
.
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
128
5 February 1801: William Pitt resigned as Prime Minister after...
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5 February 1801
William Pitt
resigned as Prime Minister after failing to persuade the king
that Catholic Emancipation was a necessity for the political health of Ireland.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
340-1
13 February 1801: George III's third attack of porphyria b...
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13 February 1801
George III
's third attack of porphyria began.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
414
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
111
17 March 1801: Henry Addington (a Tory who in 1805 was created...
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17 March 1801
Henry Addington
(a Tory who in 1805 was created first Viscount Sidmouth) formed the government after William Pitt
resigned over George III
's opposition to Catholic Emancipation.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 238
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