The Early Hanoverians

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LibriVox recording of The Early Hanoverians by Edward Ellis Morris. Read in English by Pamela Nagami In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old king assumed the throne when James Stuart roused the Highlanders in the "Fifteen." Five years later the collapse of the South Sea Company convulsed Britain and her first prime minister, Robert Walpole, emerged to stabilize the country's finances. George II succeeded his father in 1727 and Morris writes that "the new King was in person short, and like many short men, proud and touchy." Fortunately, he was guided by the wise Queen Caroline. On the Continent, the Turks besieged Vienna, Britain got embroiled first in the War of Jenkins' Ear and then in the War of the Austrian Succession, while Bonnie Prince Charlie took advantage of these distractions to mount the nearly successful Jacobite invasion of the "Forty-five." Meanwhile, John Wesley's Methodism revived religious enthusiasm, Boswell immortalized Samuel Johnson and his friends, and Tom Jones embarked on an epic road trip in which Henry Fielding brought English society to life, warts and all.…

Directors & creators

Edward Ellis Morris

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Louis XIV; Isaac Newton; Voltaire; whig; Henry Fielding; george i; george ii; robert walpole; joseph addison; tory; the court of hanover; gottfried wilhelm leibniz; henry st. john 1st viscount bolingbroke; jacobite rising of 1715; richard steele; louis xv; philip duke of orleans; south sea bubble; queen caroline; william pitt earl of chatham; jenkins' ear; war of the austrian succession; the forty-five; john wesley; bishop berkeley; jean jacques rousseau

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