Frederick Lewis Prince of Wales

EH 's tragedy Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh, dedicated to Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales , opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields . It was published before the end of the month.

Her father, David Mallet , was well-known as a poet and dramatist. During Dorothea's childhood his career prospered; he was a friend of Pope and an active member of the political opposition centred on the...

LLS 's father, the third Earl of Bute , was a serious botanist and patron of science, and a keen amateur actor. He would have remained an obscure Scots peer, but for his chance acquaintance...

Martin Madan had been born in the Caribbean, on the island of Nevis, where his family owned property, but had lived in England since infancy. He rose to be a colonel in the army...

Its protagonist is a distant ancestor of George II's eldest son (freshly arrived in England and created Prince of Wales ), and its title is the same as that which he himself bore in Germany...

AI travelled to Germany, appointed by Queen Caroline to escort Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha to England to marry the Prince of Wales .

EH 's political allegiance may have been dictated by the need to make a living, or by taking a satirical view of successive centres of political enthusiasm. She wrote opportunistic satire on George II while...

Her biographer, Kathryn R. King , gently but firmly demolishes Hayood's claim never to have written anything in a political way. King traces her relations at different times with dissident Whigs, disaffected Tories, crypto-Jacobites...

Hertford later included poems of her own composition in her letters to Rowe and to Lord Winchilsea , widower of the poet Anne Finch . She exchanged verse, too, with Frederick, Prince of Wales ...

Each poem is headed by a picture, showing the thatched structure of Merlin's Cave and the stone-built royal hermitage respectively. The first poem, Merlin, is Humbly inscrib'd to Caroline , and after imploring...

Spedding rejects the dubious works: Vanelia; or, The Amours of the Great (a musical entertainment staged and printed in 1732) which mocks the Prince of Wales whom EH had flattered; and Mr. Taste. The Poetical...

Its full title was Remarks upon the Principles and Reasonings of Dr. Rutherforth 's Essay on the Nature and Obligations of Virtue: In Vindication of the contrary Principles and Reasonings, inforced in the Writings of...

Few of GM 's letters survive, but in winter 1737-8 she was writing to her uncle Alexander, Earl of Marchmont (the little brother Sandy of her memoir about her mother). She offered him shrewd...

She lavishly flatters the new Prince of Wales . Prince Frederick (eldest son of the present king, George II, whom as Prince of Wales EH had attacked) had grown up in Hanover. Once arrived in...

The first event she records was an ultimatum from the Prince of Wales to his father, George II , whom he enraged by demanding Walpole's removal. She describes how, after Walpole fell, power struggles among...