Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press, 1955.
150-1
King George IV
Standard Name: George IV, King
Used Form: Prince of Wales
Used Form: Prince Regent
Used Form: George the Fourth
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Melesina Trench | Wherever she went on her first European trip she had access to exclusive circles of society. She met Nelson
and his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton
, the writer Antoine de Rivarol
, Napoleon's brother Lucien Bonaparte |
| Friends, Associates | Grace Elliott | She had renewed her acquaintance with the prince
, according to the account in notes to her published journal. |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | Eliza and John Fenwick were close friends of Maria Reveley
, her first husband the architect Willey Reveley
, and their son the architect and engineer Henry Willey Reveley
. (Their son was a playmate... |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Robinson | As a beautiful actress MR
was frequently painted by artists, who included Richard Cosway
, Thomas Gainsborough
, Angelica Kauffmann
, Thomas Lawrence
, Joshua Reynolds
, and George Romney
. As the prince's mistress... |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Lady Champion de Crespigny | Mary Champion de Crespigny
and her husband
gave a fête champetre at Champion Lodge, for an assemblage of about 500 noble and distinguished persons, Ietros,. “Fête Champêtre given by Mr. and Mrs. Crespigny, on the 23d of June last, at Champion Lodge, Camberwell”. Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 74: 2 , July 1804, pp. 621-2. 621 Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 74: 2 (July 1804): 621 |
| Leisure and Society | Georgiana Fullerton | The Leveson-Gower family moved in exclusive social circles, and Fullerton recalled in her unfinished memoir that she regularly attended the Children's Ball at Carlton House (residence of the Prince Regent), and on one occasion, while... |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Anna Jane Vardill | This volume was reviewed in the European Magazine in August by Joseph Moser
, who was at the time its leading poetry contributor. De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine. Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826. 2007, http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag/. |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Ellis Cornelia Knight | |
| Occupation | Mary Robinson | MR
caught the eye of the young Prince of Wales
as she acted Perdita in a royal command performance of Shakespeare
's The Winter's Tale; she was twenty-two (or twenty-three) to his seventeen. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994. xii Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994. 101 Nathan, Alix. “Mistaken or Misled? Mary Robinson’s Birth Date”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, 2002, pp. 139-42. 139 |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Mary Harcourt | MH
occupied a court position during the anxious time when George III
was first attacked by apparent insanity. She seems to have been the one responsible for recommending Dr Francis Willis
as his physician. Harcourt, Mary. “Diary of the Court of King George III”. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 1871–1872. 3n1 |
Timeline
January 1817: The Prince Regent, on his way to open Parliament,...
National or international item
January 1817
The Prince Regent
, on his way to open Parliament
, was the target of (probably) a stone which broke the window of the state coach; like a similar missile hurled at his father
on...
After January 1820: On ascending to the throne George IV abolished...
Building item
After January 1820
On ascending to the throne George IV
abolished the hoop and wide skirt in court dress.
Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Revised, Faber and Faber, 1981.
70
29 January 1820: King George III died and George IV (already...
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29 January 1820
King George III
died and George IV
(already Regent) assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
426
Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
xi, 151
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
46
November 1820: George IV's bill for divorcing Queen Caroline...
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November 1820
George IV
's bill for divorcing Queen Caroline was abandoned.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
248
Carretta, Vincent. George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
358
19 July 1821: George IV's coronation was marred for many...
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19 July 1821
George IV
's coronation was marred for many by the exclusion of his estranged wife, Caroline , and her highly visible efforts to participate.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
248
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
230
Luttrell, Barbara. The Prim Romantic. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
204
7 August 1821: George IV's estranged wife, Queen Caroline,...
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7 August 1821
George IV
's estranged wife, Queen Caroline , died.
Carretta, Vincent. George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
358
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
248
12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...
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12 August-3 September 1821
The newly-crowned George IV
visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III
made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
186-7
1822: The Academy of Music in London was founded...
Building item
1822
The Academy of Music
in London was founded by John Fane, Lord Burghersh
.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
Sadie, Stanley, and Alison Latham, editors. The Norton/Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music. W. W. Norton, 1988.
Arnold, Denis, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press, 1983.
14-29 August 1822: George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning...
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14-29 August 1822
George IV
visited Edinburgh (first reigning monarch to do so since the 1630s); Sir Walter Scott
laid on a lavish display of Scottish national pride.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
235, 387n12, 403n94
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
26 June 1830: King George IV died, leaving William IV to...
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26 June 1830
King George IV
died, leaving William IV
to assume the throne.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
47
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
606
Summer 1830: In this year's elections (which followed...
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Summer 1830
In this year's elections (which followed the death of George IV
) no votes were cast in Wales and only 239 were cast in Scotland; most constituencies had a single candidate, so there was...
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