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
Textual Features Sarah Pearson
The family attends the funeral of Mirabeau ;
Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794, 3 vols.
2: 89
they are still in France at the onset of the dreadful events of September 1793: the beginning of the Terror.
Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794, 3 vols.
3: 98
The medallion is...
Textual Features Catherine Gore
She quotes Byron on the title-page.
Gore, Catherine. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb. R. Bentley, 1845.
title-page
As the Edinburgh Review noticed, Cecil's launching as a coxcomb takes place in 1809, the year that Byron began writing Childe Harold, and his final moral awakening...
Textual Features Anna Maria Mackenzie
Her dedication to the Princess of Wales mentions, in capitals, the late HAPPY EVENT of her marriage (ill-starred, as it turned out) to the future George IV , which had taken place earlier in the...
Textual Features Mary Julia Young
The title-page quotes Le Sage , in French, avowing that he intended to depict people as they are, but not real individuals (a quotation that might work in reverse, encouraging readers to expect recognisable portraits)...
Textual Features Felicia Hemans
This was a topical subject given the Napoleonic wars which had involved Britain (and FH 's brothers and fiancé) in fighting in Spain and Portugal. The twenty-eight-page poem, dedicated with permission to the 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, 1795, 16 pp.
title-page
Textual Production Sarah Green
Mary O'Brien seems to have a good claim, since her The Political Monitor; or Regent 's Friend. Being a collection of poems published in England during the agitation of the regency: consisting of curious, interesting...
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, 1825.
title-page
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Mary Latter
ML wrote A Lyric Ode, on the Birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (later George IV ), which she published in 1763.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
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.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 431
Textual Production Mary Julia Young
Young mentions the restraint laid on my pen by Personages who fear'd to be mention'd in those memoirs.
Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18, 1 June 2008– 2024.
letter 1
Crouch, née Phillips, began her career as an opera singer, developed a gift for comedy...
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, 1992.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Adelaide O'Keeffe
The dedication imagines writers aspiring to the honour of influencing the baby Charlotte: I taught the maid! cries each exulting Muse.
O’Keeffe, Adelaide. Llewellin. Cawthorn, 1799, 3 vols.
prelims
It praises the royal family indiscriminately: the present king and queen , and...
Textual Production Jane Porter
It was published by Longman in three volumes.
Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824, 3 vols., http://U of A, Special Collections.
title-page
The king was said to have suggested the topic.
Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824, 3 vols., http://U of A, Special Collections.
1: v-viii
It seems, therefore, that JP , in turning to the House of Brunswick for a...
Textual Production Mary Harcourt
Her last letters in the collection relate her expedition to escort Princess Caroline to England to marry the Prince of Wales .
Harcourt, Edward William, editor. The Harcourt Papers. 1880–1905, 4 vols.
4: 628-44 passim

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