Chandler, David. “’The Athens of England’: Norwich as a Literary Center in the Late Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
43
, No. 2, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2010, pp. 171-92. 185
King George III
Standard Name: George III, King
Used Form: Prince of Wales
Used Form: George the Third
Used Form: Prince George
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Susan Smythies | The ending of her last novel sounds as if she subscribed to the ideas put forward by Lord Bolingbroke
about the leadership potentially offered by a patriot king. Such ideas were re-surfacing with the prospect... |
| politics | Mary Latter | ML
subscribed enthusiastically to the pro-John Wilkes
, anti-Lord Bute
views of the radical Opposition at the time of George III
's accession. She saw English society as corrupt and decadent, and looked... |
| politics | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | MBF
seems to have been too much occupied with the religious life to have much thought to spare for earthly politics. At the beginning of December 1792, however, after a conversation with someone anxious about... |
| politics | Anne Francis | AF
was a conservative royalist who rejoiced repeatedly at the recovery of George III
from his first bout of illness (and wrote a song for the local Sunday school pupils to rejoice too) and praised... |
| Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III
fell ill, probably... |
| Publishing | Anne Francis | The Norwich Mercury carried an 80-line poem by AFOn His Majesty's illness (George III
's first serious and prolonged attack of porphyria). |
| Publishing | Catherine Phillips | In the year of CP
's death there appeared, privately printed, her sacred poemThe Happy King, addressed to George III
. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | Gooch must have spent heavily on advertising. From 5 April until 5 May front-page advertisements for her book appeared in the London Star and other papers. They took up an unusual number of column-inches, since... |
| 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. 34 |
| Residence | Caroline Herschel | CH
moved from Bath to Datchet when her brother William was appointed to a position (as astronomer, not musician) in the personal service of George III
. Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007. 125 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Residence | Frances Trollope | She visited Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and the battlefield of Waterloo. She also visited Charlemagne
's cathedral at Aiz-la-Chapelle or Aachen, as well as the Rhine and surrounding region... |
| Residence | Mary Delany | In the early years of her second widowhood, MD
took to staying half the year with the Duchess of Portland
at her estate at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire. Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , 2001, pp. 203-35. 213, 216 |
| Residence | Sarah Trimmer | |
| 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 | Margaret Croker |
Timeline
January 1804: George III exhibited preliminary symptoms...
National or international item
January 1804
George III
exhibited preliminary symptoms of his fourth attack of porphyria (from which he partly recovered later in the year).
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
131
1804: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) was...
National or international item
1804
The Prince of Wales
(later George IV) was given full custody of his daughter Princess Charlotte
; George III
(her grandfather) became her guardian.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
433
25 October 1809: A celebration was held for George III's silver...
National or international item
25 October 1809
A celebration was held for George III
's silver jubilee (coincidentally the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt).
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
216-19
25 October 1810: George III suffered the onset of a fifth...
National or international item
25 October 1810
George III
suffered the onset of a fifth attack of porphyria.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
143-4
5 February 1811: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) became...
National or international item
5 February 1811
The Prince of Wales
(later George IV) became Regent in view of his father
's renewed (and, as it turned out, final) lapse into madness.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
450
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
234
February 1812: The Prince of Wales's Regency was made permanent,...
National or international item
February 1812
The Prince of Wales
's Regency was made permanent, in recognition that George III
was not expected to recover.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
453
January 1817: The Prince Regent, on his way to open Parliament,...
National or international item
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...
November 1818: George III's wife, Queen Charlotte, died...
National or international item
November 1818
November 1819-February 1820: These crisis months saw (besides the death...
National or international item
November 1819-February 1820
These crisis months saw (besides the death of George III
and growth of the scandal surrounding Queen Caroline ) the passage of the notoriously repressive Six Acts
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
659-60
29 January 1820: King George III died and George IV (already...
National or international item
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.
426
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.
46
October 1822: Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written...
Writing climate item
October 1822
Byron
published The Vision of Judgment (written around the previous summer) in The Liberal, a journal which he and Leigh Hunt
briefly published at Pisa.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1963–1968, p. 1: v - xx.
1: xvii
Pinto gives the date as October...
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