Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Textual Production | L. E. L. | In the same year, 1833, LEL published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book a poem entitled The Princess Charlotte. This sets its evocation of the terrible national blow of the princess's death, on 6... |
Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | Among a number of other women, BH
mourned an unexpected royal death in verse in The Funeral. A Monody to the Memory of Princess Charlotte. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992. 68-9 |
Textual Production | Hannah More | This was written, with a sense of urgency and importance, to benefit the young Princess Charlotte
, whose educational establishment was just being arranged. It rapidly went through six editions. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 187, 190 |
Textual Production | Anne Hunter | AH
left four manuscript volumes of poetry, three now at the Royal College of Surgeons
and one at Aberdeen University
. Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009. xviii |
Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | AS
was writing poetry at the age of nine. She went on as an adult to publish several volumes of verse. Her first poem to appear on its own instead of in a magazine (in... |
Textual Production | Jane Austen | JA
declined James Stanier Clarke
's invitation to write a historical romance about the royal house of Saxe-Coburg—which would have been radically unlike her almost-finished Persuasion. The invitation was intended to compliment Princess Charlotte |
Textual Production | Mary Stockdale | MS
dated the advertisement to A Wreath for the Urn, An Elegy on Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales
and Saxe Coburg (who had died on 6 November). 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. Stockdale, Mary. A Wreath for the Urn. Mary Stockdale, 1818. |
Textual Production | Mary Stockdale | This was not MS
's only effusion for the princess
: she also published The Unexpected and Affecting Death of . . . Princess Charlotte, undated. Behrendt, Stephen C. Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte. Macmillan, 1997. 131n9 |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
drafted a blank-verse elegy for Princess Charlotte
—which suggests that the reception of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven had not completely silenced her. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi. 323n |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte
in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign, Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne, 1814. 48 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Jane Vardill | Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte
(The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III
and the Duke of Kent
(The Eldest King... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Martha Hale | She writes on public themes with equal panache, attacking colonial appropriations and in another poem calling Warren Hastings
an oppressed hero. She addresses public men and women, and here too is attentive to women's issues... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Harvey | This heterogenous collection addresses a number of political topics: slavery, labour relations, women artisans, the price of bread, and the death of Princess Charlotte
, Our much-lov'd hope. Harvey, Jane. Fugitive Pieces. Currie and Bowman, 1841. 48-50 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | In Laura's Dream, a little girl with a fever tells her mother how she has dreamed of a visit to the moon, where people—or what a recent critic calls lunar humanoids— Kittredge, Katharine. “Melesina Chenevix St. John Trench (1768-1827)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol. 10 , No. 2, 1 June 2006– 2024, pp. 4-6. 6 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | She expresses intimate feelings freely, not only in the Mourning Journal for her son. Weeks after her daughter's death she uses moving, traditionally gendered imagery to lament that a daughter is a benignant star... |
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