Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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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 | Author name Sort ascending | 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 | Elizabeth Gunning | EG
published The War-Office, A Novel: her dedication to the Duke of York
(son of George III
) is dated 1 December 1802. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Green | |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | It provides the first picture in English of the manners of the court of Christian VII
, and of Queen Caroline Matilda
, sister of George III
. This is presented through the eyes of... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | Gooch must have spent heavily on advertising. From 5 April until 5 May front-page advertisements for her book appeared in the London Star and other papers. They took up an unusual number of column-inches, since... |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Gilding | 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... |
| 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 , pp. 7-25. 16 |
| Publishing | Anne Francis | The Norwich Mercury carried an 80-line poem by AFOn His Majesty's illness (George III
's first serious and prolonged attack of porphyria). Chandler, David. “’The Athens of England’: Norwich as a Literary Center in the Late Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 43 , No. 2, pp. 171-92. 185 |
| politics | Anne Francis | 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... |
| politics | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Fanshawe | Her father, John Fanshawe, had a position in the royal household of George III
. He died in 1816. Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 2: 151 |
| Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | 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... |
| Textual Production | Grace Elliott | This story credits Sir David Dundas
as the cause of her writing. He was a friend both to her and to her lover the duc d'Orléans
, and physician both to her and to George III |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | As hostess she entertained a talented and faintly bohemian circle. The Prince of Wales
came to breakfast, but some ladies at the head of society found her not sufficiently respectable to visit. George III
felt... |
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