Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, pp. 597 - 604, 661. 601
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Kelly | IK
's father, William Fordyce
, was the son of a successful merchant later convicted of kidnapping. The son became a physician and served as an army surgeon (with the rank of captain) and later... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Jebb | She felt with the Foxite Whigs that the king
was guilty of folly, mismanagement, and Stuart-like behaviour, and was interfering unwarrantably with the processes of government. Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , pp. 597 - 604, 661. 601 |
Textual Production | Lucille Iremonger | LI
published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia
, daughter of George III
(who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria
's daughters in 1982. In 1981... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Inchbald | The controversial feature in this work was the depiction of King George III
as a stingy nobleman (who, however, was not without some good points). Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 97-8 |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Holford | A poem prefacing Wallace addresses a friend of Holford named Miss Gertrude Louisa Allen
(and includes a tribute to King George
the Good, his people's friend). A prose preface asserts the writer's English patriotism to... |
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/. |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | 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)... |
Dedications | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | It is dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester
, a daughter of George III
who had acquired that title by marriage in 1816. Confusingly, the mother of LMH
's previous dedicee Lady Waldegrave had been... |
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. Harcourt, Mary. “Diary of the Court of King George III”. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society. 3 |
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. 3 |
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... |
Occupation | Mary Harcourt | 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. Harcourt, Mary. “Diary of the Court of King George III”. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society. 3n1 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Harcourt | 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... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Ham | On of one of George III
's holidays at Weymouth, he visited EH
's uncle's farm. A sheaf of straw that the King handled as it came from the Thrashing [sic] Machine, was hoisted... |
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