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Wealth and Poverty | Grace Elliott | She needed to visit London to press for payment of the annuity promised her by the Prince of Wales
: three hundred and fifty pounds a year, paid quarterly, on the condition of her living... |
Travel | Mary Harcourt | The banks of the Thames were lined with cheering spectators. At Greenwich the royal party got into coaches (after a small crisis about another lady-in-waiting who claimed that facing backwards in the coach would make... |
Travel | Mary Harcourt | MH
arrived in Hanover from Osnabruck to join the suite of Fraser, Flora. The Unruly Queen. The Life of Queen Caroline. Knopf. 52 James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury,. Diaries and Correspondence. Editor Malmesbury, James Howard Harris, R. Bentley. 3: 211 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Mozley | Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley
's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Harcourt | The printed diary begins with the crucial days during which the disturbed king gave signs of convalescence, just in time for the withdrawal of the Regency Bill which would have put the government into the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carola Oman | Despite her obvious topical political agenda, CO
does not confuse her picture of Napoleon and his operations by any likeness to Hitler. She opens her history, like the biographer she was, with the guillotining of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | In the play Lord Crotchet, who is a scholar of ancient Rome and thinks it superior to the modern world, plans a day of saturnalia, when servants change places with their masters. This is presented... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Gore | Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales
and his mistress Lady Jersey
downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox
, apostrophised as one of the great and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Green | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | CMC
voices some anti-semitism on the topic of the Naturalization Bill (the bill of 5 April 1753 naturalizing resident aliens, which was popularly called the Jew Bill): she believed that the Jews bribed our... |
Textual Production | Adelaide O'Keeffe | |
Textual Production | Mary Harcourt | Her last letters in the collection relate her expedition to escort Harcourt, Edward William, editor. The Harcourt Papers. 4: 628-44 passim |
Textual Production | Henrietta Battier | The marriage of the Prince of Wales
provoked HB
to publish (as Pat. T. Pindar) a satire, Marriage Ode Royal. Battier, Henrietta. Marriage Ode Royal. Sold at No. 17, Fade Street. title-page |
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... |
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