Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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, p. ix - xlv. xliv |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Scott | Scott had been appointed sub-preceptor in November 1750 to Prince George
, who next year became Prince of Wales. After their marriage, SS
and her husband moved into a house in Leicester Fields, London... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | IHR
's father, Charles Walker
, was the local squire and a Justice of the Peace. His father was a former Accountant General to George III
. Summerscale, Kate. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace. Bloomsbury USA. 5-6 |
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... |
Publishing | Catherine Phillips | In the year of CP
's death there appeared, privately printed, her sacred poemThe Happy King, addressed to George III
. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
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. prelims |
Literary responses | Hannah More | 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... |
Dedications | Charlotte McCarthy | This too was printed for the Author. Copies cost six shillings. This appears to be the first edition, though the work had been advertised as Now ready for the Press, and will be Publish'd... |
Dedications | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | The Dublin edition has sixteen pages of close type. In a prefatory Advertisement, MBCL
says she hopes to influence the something in agitation with regard to Ireland Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan,. Verses on the Present State of Ireland. i |
Dedications | Charlotte Lennox | Again Johnson supplied her with a dedication (to the future George III
; a sheet of George's notes on the plays is bound into his presentation copy, now in the British Library
). The work... |
politics | Mary Latter | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Latter | |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
's father, Sir Joseph Knight
, was a Rear-Admiral of the White squadron. He entered the Royal Navy
at the age of fourteen, needing a profession since his family had lost a considerable amount... |
Dedications | Isabella Kelly | IK
's Minerva Press
novel Eva was advertised as just published. It was dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester
(wife of George III
's next-but-one brother, William Henry
, unacknowledged by the royal family because... |
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