James Stanier Clarke
, the prince's librarian, had issued a somewhat obliquely-worded invitation to dedicate a future work to the prince. Emma was duly dedicated to him, albeit succinctly. Austen requested her new publisher, John Murray
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Art historian Richard James Wheeler
, a strong supporter of the Rice portrait, also argued that a watercolour sketch by James Stanier Clarke
, the Prince of Wales's librarian (a full-length portrait of only six...
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declined James Stanier Clarke
's invitation to write a historical romance about the royal house of Saxe-Coburg—which would have been radically unlike her almost-finished Persuasion.
