King George III

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).

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...