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George IV (1762–1830):


Subject Literature » Victorian Literature

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405151191.2007.x


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as Regent he makes a brief appearance in Branwell’s “History of the Young Men,” and in Shirley he is described as “an unprincipled debauchee” (ch. 4), “the fat ‘Adonis of fifty’” (ch. 23) and “the royal profligate” (ch. 37). He is one monarch about whom even conservatives and royalists seem happy to be rude. The Brontë children chose Frederick, Duke of York, his brother and at the time heir to the throne, rather than him, for a prominent role in the founding of Glasstown. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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