History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 1

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Early Modern

Authors: Justin McCarthy In Year : 1884

Book Language: English

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i. 'More, Alas! Than the Queen's Life!'
ii. Parties and Leaders
iii. 'Lost for Want of Spirit'
iv. The King Comes
v. What the King Came To: 1
v. What the King Came To: 2
vi. Oxford's Fall; Bolingbroke's Flight: 1
vi. Oxford's Fall; Bolingbroke's Flight: 2
vii. The White Cockade
viii. After the Rebellion
ix. 'Malice Domestic--Foreign Levy'
x. Home Affairs
xi. 'The Earth Hath Bubbles'
xii. After the Storm
xiii. The Banishment of Atterbury
xiv. Walpole in Power as Well as Office
xv. The Drapier's Letters
xvi. The Opposition
xvii. 'Osnabruck! Osnabruck!'
xviii. George the Second
xix. 'The Patriots'
xx. A Victory for the Patriots

Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and Swift, Bolingbroke and Mary Wortley Montagu, the Old Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie, and the four King Georges. The first volume begins with the death of Queen Anne in 1714 and ends in 1733, with Robert Walpole fleeing Parliament as London erupts in rioting over his excise scheme. - Summary by Pamela Nagami