Her first published work was Trifles of Helicon, written jointly with her sister Sophia King
, which had a dedication to their father
dated 14 January 1798, and was out by March. It called...
Dedications
Sophia King
SK
and her sister Charlotte Dacre
wrote the dedication to their father
of their poetry volume Trifles of Helicon, published this year.
SK
's next work of poetry gave the title of this one...
Family and Intimate relationships
Maria Barrell
The witnesses who signed the register were Jardine of Applegarth (presumably Sir Alexander, fourth Baronet
, a Knight of Malta), John King
(who may have been the extraordinary self-made Jewish radical financier of that name...
Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Dacre
John King
, father of CD
and Sophia King
, published a hard-hitting sociopolitical analysis, Thoughts on the Difficulties and Distresses . . . .
John King
, father of CD
and of Sophia King
, divorced their mother (using a rabbinical court at Leghorn in Italy) and married an English countess.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36.
12
McCalman, Ian. Radical Underworld. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
36-7
Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Dacre
John King
, father of CD
and Sophia King
, dated a letter to Tom Paine
on political developments in France.
King, John, 1753 - 1824, and Thomas, 1737 - 1809 Paine. Mr King’s Speech at Egham. Printed by C. Boult for J. Debrett , 1793.
10-16
Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Dacre
John King
, father of CD
and Sophia King
, issued two self-justifying political manifestos: Mr. King's Apology and Oppression Deemed No Injustice Towards Some Individuals.
John King
, father of CD
and Sophia King
, visited Paris: he was escaping creditors, but also making political observations.
Rubens, Alfred. “John King”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society, Vol.
xix
, 1955, pp. 36-9.
38
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 37 (1803): 42
Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Dacre
CD
's father was born Jacob Rey
, a Portuguese Sephardic Jew in London. Tom Paine
the radical later recalled that as a poor and friendless child in Ailiffe-Street, an obscure part of the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Robinson
MR
's alleged sexual liaison with Jewish financier, money-lender, and radical John King
(father of the writers Charlotte Dacre
and Sophia King
, who at this time were barely out of infancy) seems to have...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sophia King
In SK
's life, as in her sister's, their father, John King
, the former Jacob Rey, loomed large. He was a self-made man, a money-lender, a political radical and associate of Wilkes
, the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Dacre
The authors dutifully thank their father for his care of their education. Pieces by the two sisters mostly alternate; last comes a run of five of Charlotte's. Their content is much like that of Charlotte's...
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Texts
King, John, 1753 - 1824, and Mary, 1944 - Robinson. Letters from Perdita to a Certain Israelite, and His Answers to Them. J. Fielding, 1781.
King, John, 1753 - 1824, and Thomas, 1737 - 1809 Paine. Mr King’s Speech at Egham. Printed by C. Boult for J. Debrett , 1793.
King, John, 1753 - 1824. Mr. King’s Apology; or, A Reply to his Calumniators. Thomas Wilkins, 1798.
King, John, 1753 - 1824. Oppression Deemed No Injustice Towards Some Individuals. Parsons, 1800.
King, John, 1753 - 1824. Thoughts on the Difficulties and Distresses in which the Peace of 1783, has involved the People of England. Adams and Bonwick, 1783.
