King George III

Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III fell ill, probably...

The Norwich Mercury carried an 80-line poem by AFOn His Majesty's illness (George III 's first serious and prolonged attack of porphyria).

ML subscribed enthusiastically to the pro-John Wilkes , anti-Lord Bute views of the radical Opposition at the time of George III 's accession. She saw English society as corrupt and decadent, and looked...

The ending of her last novel sounds as if she subscribed to the ideas put forward by Lord Bolingbroke about the leadership potentially offered by a patriot king. Such ideas were re-surfacing with the prospect...

MBF seems to have been too much occupied with the religious life to have much thought to spare for earthly politics. At the beginning of December 1792, however, after a conversation with someone anxious about...

AF was a conservative royalist who rejoiced repeatedly at the recovery of George III from his first bout of illness (and wrote a song for the local Sunday school pupils to rejoice too) and praised...

FB , walking on doctor's orders in Kew Gardens and understanding that the madking was safely elsewhere, was accosted by him and (still following orders) ran away.

AD was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...

In her travels through the forests and around the lakes of the colony, EPS kept vivid diary records, and supplemented her words with sketches. From these sketches she later worked up watercolours of landscape, drawings...

MH occupied a court position during the anxious time when George III was first attacked by apparent insanity. She seems to have been the one responsible for recommending Dr Francis Willis as his physician.

FB began on her first tragedy, Edwy and Elgiva, as royal Keeper of the Robes during the most frightening phase of the king 's illness.

MH kept a diary during her time as a courtier during the reign of George III . Parts of it were published during the late-nineteenth century, but it seems the only parts deemed worthy of...

The novel was set during the period when King George III was suffering from mental incapacity, and his eldest son was Regent.Mary Anne Clarke , who was mistress to the king's second son, was...

Appreciation of FH was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott and Byron , in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray , her own publisher)...

The Critical Review (to which the author's identity was no secret) said of it that HM 's narrative gift was no contemptible endowment, and that her gaiety of humour was pleasing. It did, however...