Bibliograph

Memoirs of the life and reign of King George the Third, John Heneage Jesse, Volume 1

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Label

Memoirs of the life and reign of King George the Third, John Heneage Jesse, Volume 1

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Memoirs of the life and reign of King George the Third

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

John Heneage Jesse

Summary

George III (1738-1820) was on the throne when England lost its American colonies and when it defeated Napoleon. Jesse, an influential British historian, sketches here the monarch's life and times, from childhood and marriage through political struggles and mental illness-a story enlivened by the presence of such figures as Benjamin Franklin, William Pitt, and Edmund Burke. Volume One starts, as it should, with the birth of George III and his young adulthood as Prince; it closes with the infamous tax on tea entering America and the Boston Tea Party

Target audience

adult

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