Princess Charlotte Augusta

Standard Name: Charlotte Augusta, Princess
Used Form: Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales
Used Form: Princess Charlotte

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Publishing Susanna Watts
SW , like many other writers, published an Elegy on the Death of the Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales; it appeared from I. Cockshaw, Jr. , of Leicester.
Behrendt, Stephen C. Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte. Macmillan.
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Dedications Anna Jane Vardill
AJV 's second published volume, The Pleasures of Human Life, a poem titled in a form which had become something of a cliché, bore her name and was dedicated to Princess Charlotte .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
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Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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Vardill, Anna Jane. The Pleasures of Human Life. A Poem. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
prelims
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...
Dedications Anna Jane Vardill
The full title was Poems and Translations from the Minor Greek Poets and Others: written chiefly between the ages of ten and sixteen. The volume was supplied with two title-pages, one conventionally printed and...
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
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.
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, No. 2, pp. 4-6.
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are...
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 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...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
AS was writing poetry at the age of nine. She went on as an adult to publish several volumes of verse. Her first poem to appear on its own instead of in a magazine (in...
Textual Production Mary Stockdale
MS dated the advertisement to A Wreath for the Urn, An Elegy on Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales and Saxe Coburg (who had died on 6 November).
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Stockdale, Mary. A Wreath for the Urn. Mary Stockdale.
Textual Production Mary Stockdale
This was not MS 's only effusion for the princess : she also published The Unexpected and Affecting Death of . . . Princess Charlotte, undated.
Behrendt, Stephen C. Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte. Macmillan.
131n9
Publishing Regina Maria Roche
RMR dedicated this work to Major-General Sir Adam Williamson , a career soldier who had very recently returned to England after a spell as governor-general of Jamaica.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Williamson
Writing it just after...
Occupation Maria Riddell
In the same year, 1803, she was suggested by Thomas Erskine as a suitable person to become governess to the seven-year-old Princess Charlotte , who stood second in line for the British throne. She wrote...
Reception Anna Maria Porter
This novel was the last book that Princess Charlotte was reading aloud with her husband before her untimely death in childbirth in November 1817. Prince Leopold preserved the copy, with the page turned down where...
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...

Timeline

7 January 1796: Princess Charlotte was born to the Prince...

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7 January 1796

Princess Charlotte was born to the Prince and Princess of Wales.

1804: The Chester Chronicle reported that drawers...

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1804

The Chester Chronicle reported that drawers (knickers or underpants) were now the fashion for English ladies.

1804: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) was...

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1804

The Prince of Wales (later George IV) was given full custody of his daughter Princess Charlotte ; George III (her grandfather) became her guardian.

By June 1810: Eaton Stannard Barrett (famous for his later...

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By June 1810

Eaton Stannard Barrett (famous for his later parody novel The Heroine) entered the field of commentary on gender issues with Woman, A Poem.

20 July 1815: Madame Vestris made her operatic debut as...

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20 July 1815

Madame Vestris made her operatic debut as the leading lady of the King's Theatre , aged only eighteen.

May 1816: Princess Charlotte (daughter of the Prince...

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May 1816

Princess Charlotte (daughter of the Prince of Wales ) married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg .

6 November 1817: Princess Charlotte died at 2.30 a.m. after...

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6 November 1817

Princess Charlotte died at 2.30 a.m. after delivering a stillborn son. Poor clinical judgement was to blame; intense national mourning and controversy followed.

1818: The successful children's writer Elizabeth...

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1818

The successful children's writerElizabeth Sandham published The School-Fellows, a Moral Tale, which devotes a chapter to commemoration of Princess Charlotte (who had died on 6 November 1817).

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