Harvey, Jane. Fugitive Pieces. Currie and Bowman.
48-50
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Harvey | This heterogenous collection addresses a number of political topics: slavery, labour relations, women artisans, the price of bread, and the death of Princess Charlotte
, Our much-lov'd hope. Harvey, Jane. Fugitive Pieces. Currie and Bowman. 48-50 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Kelty | Her first subject is Princess Charlotte
. After that MAK
includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce
, whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly
in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey
, Lady Rachel Russell |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Beverley | She takes as text the very alarming words of Jeremiah v. 29, in which God declares vengeance on the Jewish nation. Beverley, Elizabeth. Modern Times. Printed for the author. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Thomas | The title poem in The Confession retells a story from The Spectator no. 164, of parted lovers who meet again when she is a convent novice and he her confessor. Thomas
presents with imaginative sympathy... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | In Laura's Dream, a little girl with a fever tells her mother how she has dreamed of a visit to the moon, where people—or what a recent critic calls lunar humanoids— Kittredge, Katharine. “Melesina Chenevix St. John Trench (1768-1827)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol. 10 , No. 2, pp. 4-6. 6 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte
in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign, Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne. 48 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | She expresses intimate feelings freely, not only in the Mourning Journal for her son. Weeks after her daughter's death she uses moving, traditionally gendered imagery to lament that a daughter is a benignant star... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Martha Hale | She writes on public themes with equal panache, attacking colonial appropriations and in another poem calling Warren Hastings
an oppressed hero. She addresses public men and women, and here too is attentive to women's issues... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Jane Vardill | Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte
(The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III
and the Duke of Kent
(The Eldest King... |
Textual Production | Hannah More | This was written, with a sense of urgency and importance, to benefit the young Princess Charlotte
, whose educational establishment was just being arranged. It rapidly went through six editions. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 187, 190 |
Textual Production | Anna Jane Vardill | Vardill's next publication thanked Charlotte, Princess of Wales
, for the patronage of her first fruits. Vardill, Anna Jane. The Pleasures of Human Life. A Poem. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. prelims |
Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | Among a number of other women, BH
mourned an unexpected royal death in verse in The Funeral. A Monody to the Memory of Princess Charlotte. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 68-9 |
Textual Production | Jane Austen | JA
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. The invitation was intended to compliment Princess Charlotte |
Textual Production | 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... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
drafted a blank-verse elegy for Princess Charlotte
—which suggests that the reception of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven had not completely silenced her. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. 323n |
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