King George III

The novel was set during the period when King George III was suffering from mental incapacity, and his eldest son was Regent.Mary Anne Clarke , who was mistress to the king's second son, was...

DDB published at Dublin, by subscription and dedicated to the king , Poems on Several Occasions, by a Lady of Quality.

Back in England in her second widowhood, MD was a frequent visitor to her lifelong, very close friend the Duchess of Portland . The duchess, an amateur scientist of unusual talent and achievement, brought MD

MD continued to make new friends late in life (though she was said to have declined to meet Hester Thrale ). The king and queen were remarkably attentive to her in her widowhood. Prominent...

In the early years of her second widowhood, MD took to staying half the year with the Duchess of Portland at her estate at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire. She spent her winters...

After Margaret, Duchess of Portland, died in 1785, MD must have felt the pinch. She had not taken regular money from her friend, but her long stays in the hospitable household at Bulstrode must have...

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

AD was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...

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...

The title-page quotes from Milton 's sonnet on his dead wife. The text quotes from Pope and Young . MC emphasises real, sincere emotion (her only recommendation, she says) in her dedication, in the advertisement...

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

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...

GC 's uncle William Morton Pitt was a Member of Parliament representing Dorset for nearly fifty years. He worked fervently on behalf of the poor, and lobbied constantly for improved prison conditions. He also regularly...

FB , walking on doctor's orders in Kew Gardens and understanding that the madking was safely elsewhere, was accosted by him and (still following orders) ran away.

FB began on her first tragedy, Edwy and Elgiva, as royal Keeper of the Robes during the most frightening phase of the king 's illness.