Luttrell, Barbara. The Prim Romantic. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
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Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of England
Standard Name: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,, Queen of England
Used Form: Queen Charlotte Sophia
Used Form: Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Published at about the time that she became a courtier, this was dedicated to the queen
, as a tribute of respectful gratitude, by her Majesty's most dutiful, and most devoted servant, the Author. |
| Dedications | Hannah Cowley | Thereafter she stayed with Covent Garden for her major works. She was paid £100 to delay publishing this play, presumably to keep the public's appetite on edge. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 319 |
| Dedications | Sarah Trimmer | It was issued by a group of publishers: Longman
, the Robinsons
, and Joseph Johnson
. 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. |
| Dedications | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | The Dublin edition has sixteen pages of close type. In a prefatory Advertisement, MBCL
says she hopes to influence the something in agitation with regard to Ireland Lucan, Margaret Bingham, Countess. Verses on the Present State of Ireland. 1778. i |
| Dedications | Mary Stockdale | She claimed that her father insisted she should publish it. She dedicated it to Queen Charlotte
, though adding that it was too sad for Charlotte's ears. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2nd ser. 22 (1798): 352 |
| Dedications | Jean Marishall | Francis
and John Noble
were important circulating library proprietors as well as publishers. The dedication to the young queen
is signed with JM
's initials. Another edition followed the next year: Marishall said she saw... |
| Dedications | Jean Marishall | Again JM
dedicated her novel to the queen
, but this time she hardly knew whether or not it had been presented at court (perhaps, she said, the Duchess of Ancaster
had done this). She... |
| Dedications | Elizabeth Hervey | She dedicated this work to the Queen
. It was fourteen years since she had last published a novel. A second edition of 1818 was actually composed of remainder copies with a new title-page. It... |
| Dedications | Barbara Hofland | BH
published, with the Minerva Press
, dedicated by permission to the queen
, A Visit to London; or, Emily and her Friends. A Novel. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 104 Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992. 4 |
| Dedications | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
published her Poems, with about 1570 subscribers, dedicated to Queen Charlotte
. The British Library Catalogue on-line lists two volumes of separately-issued Sonnets, 11644.bb.10 and 011604.ee.65, no date or details given. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 62 (1786): 62 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Dedications | Lady Mary Walker | LMW
said she wrote this book in her nursery, surrounded by her children, to earn money after her first husband left her. She also says she was persuaded by friends to publish. Walker, Lady Mary. Letters from the Duchess de Crui and Others. 2nd ed., Robson, 1777, 5 vols. 1: v Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Dedications | Frances Burney | FB
had worked on the story told in this novel since before her marriage. The heroine had been called variously Betulia, Arietta, and Clarinda. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988. 205, 209 |
| Employer | Ellis Cornelia Knight | The Queen
would call on her each morning on her way to Frogmore, her house in Windsor's Home Park. Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960. 83 n1 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susannah Gunning | SG
's mother-in-law, at her death on 8 June 1770, held the post of State Housekeeper at Somerset House, which had been allocated to the newly married queen
. Gantz, Ida. The Pastel Portrait. Cresset Press, 1963. 69 Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 40 (1770): 279 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Boyle | MB
's mother, Caroline Emilia (Poyntz) Boyle
(whose second name her daughter spells Amelia) held the position of bed-chamber woman to Queen Charlotte
. Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902. 4, 30 |
Timeline
20 May 1761: George III consented to marry Princess Charlotte...
National or international item
20 May 1761
George III
consented to marry Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
; formal proposals began.
Tillyard, Stella. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
130-2
8 July 1761: The engagement of George III and Princess...
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8 July 1761
The engagement of George III
and Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
was announced at a Privy Council meeting.
Tillyard, Stella. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
132
22 September 1761: King George III and Queen Charlotte were...
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22 September 1761
King George III
and Queen Charlotte
were crowned; Horace Walpole
and Thomas Gray
each left a vivid account of the occasion, while Catherine Talbot
wrote a prose poem about non-attendance, about spending a festal day...
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.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
3
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
329, 342
23 April 1789: A solemn service of thanksgiving for the...
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23 April 1789
A solemn service of thanksgiving for the recovery of George III
was held in St Paul's Cathedral.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
158
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
14: 124n1
9 June 1792: Gillray published a remarkable political...
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9 June 1792
Gillray
published a remarkable political cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil: personified versions of Queen Charlotte
, William Pitt
, and Lord Thurlow
.
Hill, Draper. Mr. Gillray, the Caricaturist. Phaidon Press, 1965.
plate 44
1812: The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society was...
Building item
1812
The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society
was founded, to provide charity to London's poor.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
101-2
June 1816: Lady Isabella King opened at Bailbrook House...
Building item
June 1816
Lady Isabella King
opened at Bailbrook House near Bath a communal home for single gentlewomen (or Protestant nunnery): a project going back to Mary Astell
, which King picked up from Sarah Scott
's Millenium Hall.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
November 1818: George III's wife, Queen Charlotte, died...
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November 1818
9 June 1819: The library of the late Queen Charlotte was...
Building item
9 June 1819
The library of the late Queen Charlotte
was auctioned by Christie's
; it included Jane Austen
's works, plus titles by Catherine Cuthbertson
, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, Alethea Lewis
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