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...
Textual Production
Catharine Trotter
Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT
) composed, at Aberdeen, A Poem, Occasioned by the busts set up in the Queen
's Hermitage . . . .
Trotter, Catharine. The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn. Editor Birch, Thomas, J. and P. Knapton, 1751.
2: 572-5
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Susanna Centlivre
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...
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Jean Plaidy
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...
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Mary Barber
Somebody signing Swift
's name, possibly MB
herself, addressed to Queen Caroline
a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage.
The name of Matthew Pilkington
, though not yet put forward, seems a natural...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jane Brereton
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Stockdale
The opening is almost gothic in tone: What means this awful gloom . . . ?
qtd. in
Behrendt, Stephen C. Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte. Macmillan, 1997.
131
The poem is strongly partisan, arguing that the banished queen
ought to have been there to comfort her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Charlotte McCarthy
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Barber
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...
Wealth and Poverty
Elizabeth Elstob
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...