King George III

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...

Among ET 's shorter poems, her forms include hymns, odes, fables (the magpie and the stork, the rose and the thorn), and blank verse. A poem on Richborough Castle near Sandwich has masses of historical...

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...

This collection contained writing in many genres, including dialogues, pastorals, allegories, and imitations of Henry Macpherson 's fashionable Ossian. One of the essays paints a rosy picture of the necessity of working for bread...

The title-page quotes Le Sage , in French, avowing that he intended to depict people as they are, but not real individuals (a quotation that might work in reverse, encouraging readers to expect recognisable portraits)...

The series of watercolours by EPS which her husband presented to George III are now in the British Library .

MH composed the latest entry to be included in Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III.

The frontispiece features a portrait of the cookery writer Hannah Glasse (drawn by EC herself), who is heroicised in the text. This poem answers The Sovereign, a poem by Charles Small Pybus , addressed...

While staying with John Rich in London (for the second time) in 1761, ML not only studied stagecraft to benefit her own writing, but was kept busy doing writing jobs he suggested. Aware of her...

PBS published his second book of poetry, Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson . Being poems found amongst the papers of that noted female who attempted the life of the King in 1786.

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...

MC , aged seventy-one, wrote the last datable poem in her volume Poems, on Several Occasions: On the Marriage of George the Third.

It reached a second edition within the year. Its full title is The History of Mecklenburgh, from the First Settlement of the Vandals in that Country, to the Present Time; Including a Period of...

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.

AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...