King George III

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...

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).

It was requested for performance by the king and attended by the Prince of Wales . The Critical Review suggested that even after ten years of writing for the stage EI was not yet...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!, it proceeds...

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...

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 that she believes to be on...

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...

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...