Ferguson, Moira. “The Unpublished Poems of Ann Yearsley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
12
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1993, pp. 13-46. 13-14
King George III
Standard Name: George III, King
Used Form: Prince of Wales
Used Form: George the Third
Used Form: Prince George
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Eleanor Tatlock | 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... |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | 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... |
| Textual Features | Catherine Talbot | 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... |
| Textual Features | Mary Julia Young | 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)... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Croker | |
| Textual Production | Anne Damer | 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... |
| Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | Bristol Public Library
's copy of AY
's Poems, on Several Occasions, first edition, incorporates a dozen manuscript poems, including To The King
: On His Majesty's arrival at Cheltenham 1788. |
| 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... |
| 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, 1799, 3 vols. prelims |
| Textual Production | Henrietta Battier | Soon afterwards (though at a later age than the fifteen years which she claimed) she embarked on complimentary occasional verse in the form of an elegy for Lady Townshend
(wife of the then fourth Viscount and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Grace Elliott | This story credits Sir David Dundas
as the cause of her writing. He was a friend both to her and to her lover the duc d'Orléans
, and physician both to her and to George III |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Gunning | EG
published The War-Office, A Novel: her dedication to the Duke of York
(son of George III
) is dated 1 December 1802. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 170 |
| Textual Production | Robert Southey | RS
, in his capacity as Poet Laureate, published a poetic tribute to George III
(who had died in January 1820), entitled A Vision of Judgement. Wu, Duncan, editor. Romanticism: An Anthology. 2nd ed., Blackwell, 1998. 560 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Ham | In her teens EH
made up romantic stories for herself on the slightest opportunity. She attached several to George III
's daughter Princess Sophia
, who was suspected of having an illegitimate child. Meeting a... |
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