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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
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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... |
politics | Susan Smythies | 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... |
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... |
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... |
Publishing | Catherine Phillips | In the year of CP
's death there appeared, privately printed, her sacred poemThe Happy King, addressed to George III
. |
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... |
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... |
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 |
Reception | Elizabeth Inchbald | It was requested for performance by the king
and attended by the Prince of Wales
. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 34 |
Residence | Mary Delany | In the early years of her second widowhood, MD
took to staying half the year with the Duchess of Portland
at her estate at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire. Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , pp. 203-35. 213, 216 |
Residence | Sarah Trimmer | |
Residence | Frances Trollope | She visited Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and the battlefield of Waterloo. She also visited Charlemagne
's cathedral at Aiz-la-Chapelle or Aachen, as well as the Rhine and surrounding region... |
Residence | Caroline Herschel | CH
moved from Bath to Datchet when her brother William was appointed to a position (as astronomer, not musician) in the personal service of George III
. Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow. 125 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Margaret Croker | |
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... |
Timeline
January 1804: George III exhibited preliminary symptoms...
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January 1804
George III
exhibited preliminary symptoms of his fourth attack of porphyria (from which he partly recovered later in the year).
1804: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) was...
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1804
The Prince of Wales
(later George IV) was given full custody of his daughter Princess Charlotte
; George III
(her grandfather) became her guardian.
25 October 1809: A celebration was held for George III's silver...
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25 October 1809
A celebration was held for George III
's silver jubilee (coincidentally the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt).
25 October 1810: George III suffered the onset of a fifth...
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25 October 1810
George III
suffered the onset of a fifth attack of porphyria.
5 February 1811: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) became...
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5 February 1811
The Prince of Wales
(later George IV) became Regent in view of his father
's renewed (and, as it turned out, final) lapse into madness.
February 1812: The Prince of Wales's Regency was made permanent,...
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February 1812
The Prince of Wales
's Regency was made permanent, in recognition that George III
was not expected to recover.
January 1817: The Prince Regent, on his way to open Parliament,...
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January 1817
The Prince Regent
, on his way to open Parliament
, was the target of (probably) a stone which broke the window of the state coach; like a similar missile hurled at his father
on...
November 1818: George III's wife, Queen Charlotte, died...
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November 1818
George III
's wife, Queen Charlotte
, died.
November 1819-February 1820: These crisis months saw (besides the death...
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November 1819-February 1820
These crisis months saw (besides the death of George III
and growth of the scandal surrounding Queen Caroline ) the passage of the notoriously repressive Six Acts
29 January 1820: King George III died and George IV (already...
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29 January 1820
King George III
died and George IV
(already Regent) assumed the throne.
October 1822: Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written...
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October 1822
Byron
published The Vision of Judgment (written around the previous summer) in The Liberal, a journal which he and Leigh Hunt
briefly published at Pisa.
Texts
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