King George IV

Standard Name: George IV, King
Used Form: Prince of Wales
Used Form: Prince Regent
Used Form: George the Fourth

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Dedications Jane Austen
About a month before Emma appeared (on 23 December, with 1816 on its title-page), JA wrote to ascertain whether it was actually incumbent on
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press.
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her to dedicate it to the Prince of Wales .
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press.
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Friends, Associates Lady Anne Barnard
Lady Anne lived much of her life in fashionable society, and her acquaintance was very wide. In Edinburgh in her early twenties she impressed and delighted Samuel Johnson with an impromptu and complimentary bon mot...
Dedications Maria Barrell
An Advertisement notes that she had to find another printer after the first one let her down. Writing, she says, in the sad regions of a living grave, she dedicates her work to George, Prince of Wales
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.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Beverley
The Coronation Sermon (a work of which EB seems to have been particularly proud, about the crowning of George IV and the surrounding scandal) apparently bore the dignified title A Glass for Kings.
Beverley, Elizabeth. Odd Thoughts. Printed for the authoress.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Occupation William Lisle Bowles
WLB 's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied...
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB , under the anonymity of a Lady of Rank, published the challengingly-titled The Murdered Queen! or, Caroline of Brunswick. A Diary of the Court of George IV: the title-page said 1838.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
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Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB anonymously issued a Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth, a larger selection from her court writings.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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Dedications Emily Frederick Clark
It was dedicated by permission to the Prince of Wales and its subscription was advertised at the back of other books. The advertisement says: An appeal to the sympathetic feelings of a liberal public would...
Textual Production Charlotte Dacre
CD returned to poetry, publishing George IV , A Poem . . . To which are added, lyrics, designed for various melodies.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Publishing Harriet Downing
A sentimental frontispiece features five putti disporting themselves in the clouds. Since the poem later refers to these as the youthful Muses who inspire,
Downing, Harriet. Mary; or, Female Friendship. James Harper.
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it seems that they represent HD 's children. Downing dedicated...
Publishing Harriet Downing
It is dedicated to HD 's beloved Cousin Louisa G—. Subscribers included George IV , and Prince Leopold (widower of Princess Charlotte), Lord Sidmouth , many members of the Bourne family and several residents of...
Literary Setting Daphne Du Maurier
The novel was set during the period when King George III was suffering from mental incapacity, and his eldest son was Regent.Mary Anne Clarke , who was mistress to the king's second son, was...
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, probably found it easier in Rome than in London to have her rank taken at face value, without reference to her sexually dubious career. When the rejected Queen Caroline arrived in...
Leisure and Society Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
As hostess she entertained a talented and faintly bohemian circle. The Prince of Wales came to breakfast, but some ladies at the head of society found her not sufficiently respectable to visit. George III felt...

Timeline

29 December 1709: Richard Steele's reference in The Tatler...

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29 December 1709

Richard Steele 's reference in The Tatler to the new fashion of hoop petticoats marked the establishment of the mode in England or at least in London.

21 December 1785: The Prince of Wales married Mrs Fitzherbert,...

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21 December 1785

The Prince of Wales married Mrs Fitzherbert , secretly but in the presence of reliable witnesses.

28 September 1786: A hostile and sexually suggestive cartoon...

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28 September 1786

A hostile and sexually suggestive cartoon was published, depicting Mrs Fitzherbert dispensing venereal remedies to the Prince of Wales .

11 June 1788: George III, at the resort town of Cheltenham,...

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11 June 1788

George III , at the resort town of Cheltenham, publicly suffered preliminary symptoms leading up to his second attack of porphyria, which began on 17 October.

5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...

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5 November 1788-10 March 1789

George III 's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales .

8 April 1795: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) married...

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8 April 1795

The Prince of Wales (later George IV) married Princess Caroline of Brunswick.

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 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.

18 September 1809: The new Covent Garden Theatre was opened,...

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18 September 1809

The new Covent Garden Theatre was opened, only to become the scene of massive riots.

28 September 1810: Abraham Goldsmid, a London banker, committed...

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28 September 1810

Abraham Goldsmid , a London banker, committed suicide; his suicide was symptomatic of the current financial collapse.

5 February 1811: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) became...

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5 February 1811

The Prince of Wales (later George IV) became Regent in view of his father 's renewed (and, as it turned out, final) lapse into madness.

February 1812: The Prince of Wales's Regency was made permanent,...

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February 1812

The Prince of Wales 's Regency was made permanent, in recognition that George III was not expected to recover.

28 April 1813: The Act to build Regent Circus (now Regent...

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28 April 1813

The Act to build Regent Circus (now Regent Street), a grand shopping thoroughfare, was brought before parliament; construction was completed in 1820.

: Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in...

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Winter1814-15

Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in Brighton during the winter season in order to have access to the Prince Regent and attempt a conversion within the monarchy.

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 .

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