Ferguson, Moira. “The Unpublished Poems of Ann Yearsley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
12
, No. 1, pp. 13-46. 13-14
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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 | 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. Ferguson, Moira. “The Unpublished Poems of Ann Yearsley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 13-46. 13-14 |
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 | Sarah Scott | It reached a second edition within the year. Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv. xliv |
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. 2: 170 |
Textual Production | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 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. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 21 (1810): 448 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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... |
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 | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | The series of watercolours by EPS
which her husband presented to George III
are now in the British Library
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Latter | 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!, Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher. 1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Burney | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Gilding | The poems in pastoral form include religious meditations, hymns for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian festivals, love complaints, and addresses to abstracts such as Pride and Sincerity. Despair is a dramatic mini-narrative, beginning Moments on... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Jane Vardill | Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte
(The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III
and the Duke of Kent
(The Eldest King... |
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