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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Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Eliza Fletcher
EF took the side of Queen Caroline in the persecutions of her trial.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874.
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She was actually detected shedding tears as the procession passed by during the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in summer...
politics Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was instrumental in saving Fox 's ministry during a crisis over the finances of the Prince of Wales .
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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politics Leigh Hunt
LH and his brother John were summoned before the High Court on charges of seditious libel for a withering attack on the Prince Regent in The Examiner, in response to an adulatory article in...
politics Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He held office under the Whigs, played a role in the trial of Warren Hastings , became an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales , and was a vital player (with Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
politics Lady Caroline Lamb
Probably inspired by the example of her aunt the Duchess of Devonshire , she wrote letters, canvassed in taverns, and exchanged kisses for votes. Being even more notorious already than her aunt, she had less...
Publishing Harriette Wilson
Newspapers advertised the first instalment of HW 's Memoirs as due next day—but the promised contents (a list of names headed by the king and three dukes) was an obvious invitation to buy out.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Publishing Helen Maria Williams
The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW 's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall , with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway . Subscribers included the Prince of Wales (whose name...
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, 1816.
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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...
Publishing Mary Robinson
MR published the first volume of a new collection of Poems: the subscribers' list was headed by the Prince of Wales .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 2 (1791): 309
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
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Publishing Martha Hale
Subscribers included the Prince of Wales and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach , Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , her daughter the Countess of Carlisle , Charles Burney , Warren Hastings , Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble)
Reception Harriette Wilson
Frances Wilson entitles Panic at the Palace her chapter about George IV 's outrage at the things said about his mistress Lady Conyngham ; it chronicles attempts to extradite HW from Paris, in which...
Reception Catherine Gore
George IV is supposed to have called this the best bred and most amusing novel published in his remembrance.
qtd. in
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
The Edinburgh Review judged it a respectable specimen
qtd. in
Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Dissertation Thesis, University of Arkansas, May 1992.
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of the genre of fashionable novel, and...
Reception Elizabeth Inchbald
It was requested for performance by the king and attended by the Prince of Wales .
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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The Critical Review suggested that even after ten years of writing for the stage EI was not yet...
Reception Anne Grant
AG was offered an annual pension of £100 from George IV , in recognition of her literary efforts.
Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, 1972, p. ix - xxxvi.
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