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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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– 2025.
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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
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.
Textual Production Eleanor Anne Porden
EAP published her Ode on the Coronation of His Most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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...
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH published a pamphlet on the quarrel between George IV and Queen Caroline, entitled An Englishwoman's Letter to Mrs. Hannah More.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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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

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January 1817: The Prince Regent, on his way to open Parliament,...

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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...

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Carretta, Vincent. George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
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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.
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Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Luttrell, Barbara. The Prim Romantic. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
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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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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1822: The Academy of Music in London was founded...

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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, 1908–2025, 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.
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Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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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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