King George III

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...

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.

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...

The dedication imagines writers aspiring to the honour of influencing the baby Charlotte: I taught the maid! cries each exulting Muse. It praises the royal family indiscriminately: the present king and queen , and...

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).

Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV , with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Milton , Thomson , Prior , Gray , Pope , and the poems of...

The letter-writers here are a group of interconnected wealthy and titled characters. The women are immersed in a feminine realm of fashion and brittle tea-table gossip; the men are involved in politics at a high...

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.

Among the pleasures of FB 's life-writing are the way it revels in nonce-words and other innovative uses of language, and the play it makes with dramatic techniques like scene-setting and dialogue. Many famous passages...