Princess Charlotte Augusta

ABJ 's father, Denis Murphy , was appointed Painter in Enamel to Princess Charlotte (daughter of the future George IV and Queen Caroline) and provided with an apartment in Windsor Castle.

She signed her dedication to Charlotte Princess of WalesIsabella Hedgeland, and dated it 1 September. A second edition was published through Minerva Press in 1819.

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

At the request of the Prince Regent (later George IV ), and the urgings of the princesses Mary , Elizabeth , and Sophia , ECK agreed to serve as one of the lady companions to...

ECK was dismissed from the service of Princess Charlotte , the month after the princess had broken off her engagement to William, Prince of Orange .

The Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight , Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales . With Extracts From Her Journals and Anecdote Books was published posthumously in two volumes.

Throughout her life ECK associated with the highest English society, at first through connections of her father and later as a result of her years of royal service to Princess Charlotte . Her family lived...

ECK 's position as a lady companion to Princess Charlotte was complicated by the intention of the princess's father, the Regent , to keep his daughter as long as possible a child. While subject...

ECK 's desire that the princess (eventual heir to the throne) should learn to think for herself, allied her with the hope of the nation (perhaps especially strong among women) that the princess would prove...

ECK remained in London after her dismissal in order to be able to contradict any untrue reports that might surface in the press. It was during this time that she agreed to pass letters between...

After her return she paid several visits to Princess Charlotte , who was by now married to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg . These visits were brief, however, and Prince Leopold made it clear that he...

This work was edited by Sir John William Kaye , who had acquired ECK 's papers, comprised of journals and an unfinished autobiography, from Lady Egerton , to whom Knight had bequeathed them.

In the same year, 1833, LEL published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book a poem entitled The Princess Charlotte. This sets its evocation of the terrible national blow of the princess's death, on 6...

Four years after her former volume, IL published at Liverpool a book containing two long poems: A Lament upon The Death of Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte ; and, Alfred, A Vision.

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.