Caroline of Anspach Queen of England

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...

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...

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...

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...

SC was a great networker. Having met George Ballard , a local man (perhaps because her sister was a patient of his mother, who was a midwife), she introduced him to Elizabeth Elstob and to...

AC 's work was of particular interest to the Philadelphian Society associated with Jane Lead . It is now believed to have influenced Leibnitz (who owned and annotated a copy of her treatise), and through...

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....

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...

The first of these works, dedicated to Caroline, Princess of Wales , is sometimes called the first grammar of Anglo-Saxon; in fact Elstob was preceded by her friend and patron George Hickes , who published...

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...

AI travelled to Germany, appointed by Queen Caroline to escort Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha to England to marry the Prince of Wales .

MJ corresponded with Charlotte Lennox and with publisher Ralph Griffiths and his wife Isabella . Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson , Joseph Spence , Thomas Warton , and apparently Bonnell Thornton

This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange : Anne, daughter of George II and the late Queen Caroline . The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ 's friend Martha Lovelace, later...

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...