Georgiana Quentin, Harriette Wilson, and the Memoirs of “Mrs. Q”
| dc.contributor.author | Yoder, Rodney | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-16T21:42:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-10-16 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this essay, a persistent confusion in Regency-era history between two women-- Georgiana Lawrell Quentin (1784-1853) and Harriette Wilson (1786/8-1845)-- is addressed, and its source is uncovered. Georgiana Quentin was an army officer's wife and prominent in Regency society; as "Mrs. Q," she was notoriously satirized as a mistress of King George IV in a string of caricatures during 1820-21. The source of her confusion with Harriette Wilson, a famous courtesan of the same time, was a pseudonymous 1822 pamphlet that purports to be Mrs. Quentin's "Memoirs." The pamphlet is shown to be entirely fictional, written for political purposes; whether or not Georgiana Quentin was actually a mistress of George, Prince of Wales, is impossible to determine. | |
| dc.format.extent | 12 pages | |
| dc.genre | article | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2gvsj-pvuw | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/40495 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | |
| dc.subject | Art History | |
| dc.subject | Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Characters -- Heroines. | |
| dc.subject | Regency England | |
| dc.subject | George IV, King of England | |
| dc.title | Georgiana Quentin, Harriette Wilson, and the Memoirs of “Mrs. Q” | |
| dc.type | Text |