Caroline of Anspach Queen of England

In the distribution of favours that marked King George 's accession, MCC was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to his daughter-in-law Caroline of Anspach , now Princess of Wales.

She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. In England she met with all kinds of recognition which most Quaker preachers never dreamed of....

Notwithstanding EBB 's later assertion in Sonnets from the Portuguese that I lived with visions for my company / Instead of men and women, years ago, the fact that she seldom went out...

MCC supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. He resigned as Lord Chancellor on 23 September 1710 when the Tories came to...

She frequented both of the incompatible court circles—those of the king and of the Prince and Princess of Wales —apparently in search of a power base.

The Gentleman's Magazine published Catharine Cockburn's (the former CT )'s poem on the busts of British worthies in Queen Caroline 's hermitage.

He concluded, let Mrs Howard know that I recommend you to the Queen , though he declined to supply a direct introduction to a potential royal patron. Two months later Gay wrote to Swift...

In the Gentleman's Magazine, Edward Cave announced his competition for a poem on the busts of British worthies set up in Queen Caroline 's Cave or Grotto at Richmond.

MO published in Blackwoods her Historical Sketches of the Reign of George II, whose subjects include Queen Caroline (his wife) and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .

Although Gentleman's Magazine poets in general have attracted attention from Anthony Barker , and Jane Brereton has received overdue critical notice from Sarah Prescott , Fidelia's lack of a historical identity seems to have militated...

When Lady Hertford and her husband were married they had a London town house in Albemarle Street (close to Bond Street) as well as a country estate at Marlborough in Wiltshire. Marlborough Castle, as...

The title-page quotes Guarini . It comments on various political and topical issues, such as the estrangement between George I and the Prince of Wales and a plan for founding a girls' school (on both...

Each poem is headed by a picture, showing the thatched structure of Merlin's Cave and the stone-built royal hermitage respectively. The first poem, Merlin, is Humbly inscrib'd to Caroline , and after imploring...

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...

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...