King George III

QV 's father, Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent , was a son of domestic and high-minded parents, George III and Queen Charlotte , but since their day the House of Hanover had become renowned for...

JB 's brother, Matthew , who was one year her elder, had some effect on the course of her life. When he inherited a London house from an uncle (in Windmill Street), he invited...

Back in England in her second widowhood, MD was a frequent visitor to her lifelong, very close friend the Duchess of Portland . The duchess, an amateur scientist of unusual talent and achievement, brought MD

MD continued to make new friends late in life (though she was said to have declined to meet Hester Thrale ). The king and queen were remarkably attentive to her in her widowhood. Prominent...

On of one of George III 's holidays at Weymouth, he visited EH 's uncle's farm. A sheaf of straw that the King handled as it came from the Thrashing [sic] Machine, was hoisted...

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...

Appreciation of FH was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott and Byron , in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray , her own publisher)...

The Critical Review (to which the author's identity was no secret) said of it that HM 's narrative gift was no contemptible endowment, and that her gaiety of humour was pleasing. It did, however...

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...

FB began on her first tragedy, Edwy and Elgiva, as royal Keeper of the Robes during the most frightening phase of the king 's illness.

MH kept a diary during her time as a courtier during the reign of George III . Parts of it were published during the late-nineteenth century, but it seems the only parts deemed worthy of...

In her travels through the forests and around the lakes of the colony, EPS kept vivid diary records, and supplemented her words with sketches. From these sketches she later worked up watercolours of landscape, drawings...

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.

AD was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...

FB , walking on doctor's orders in Kew Gardens and understanding that the madking was safely elsewhere, was accosted by him and (still following orders) ran away.