King George III

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...

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...

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...

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...