Caroline of Anspach, Queen of England

After the death of Queen Caroline , EB addressed a poem on this event to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole : The Vision; or, The Royal Mourners, A Poem.

Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT ) composed, at Aberdeen, A Poem, Occasioned by the busts set up in the Queen 's Hermitage . . . .

JB dated her inscription to Queen Caroline of the first poem in a sixteen-page quarto issued by Cave as by a Lady: Merlin: A Poem . . . To which is added, The Royal...

A week later (14 October) came SC 's companion-piece, An Epistle to Mrs. Wallup, now in the train of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales , as it was sent to her at the...

These poems were three of the six eclogues (one for each weekday) preserved in the poetry album which Montagu claimed as her own, and printed as Six Town Eclogues in 1747. Monday, the first...

Here a mother teaching her children out of Gay's Fables, 1727, finds her fav'rite Son so moved by the tale of the hare and many friends that she has to assure him that if...

The opening is almost gothic in tone: What means this awful gloom . . . ? The poem is strongly partisan, arguing that the banished queen ought to have been there to comfort her...

JB 's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful...

The poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone...

Sarah Chapone got up a subscription for EE , which brought in enough money for a pension of £20 a year. Elstob's former dedicatee Queen Caroline contributed £100 to this fund, but died before she...