Thomas Paine

CR said that her father was an old Whig, and it appears that her own politics were of the same stamp. She favoured social reforms like improved education for women, and welcomed the early...

Early, informal response centred on the play's daring political message, which made SHR famous or notorious. People spoke of the play as Americans in Algiers or Slaves Released from Algiers.William Cobbett attacked her...

This epistolary novel is highly political; its preface asserts a woman's right to interest in politics. The letters in it span the period from June 1790 to February 1792, tracking the events of the French...

JS published an An Answer to Thomas Paine 's Third Part of The Age of Reason.

Throughout the story Dorcasina's episodes with various lovers have been separated by lapses of time, generally years. The real world occasionally signals its existence, generally through somebody's illness or death. In the final episode, which...

Also among the guests was Tom Paine . Williams herself was not present, both because she was ill and because she was a woman. By this date she had already been horrified at the September...

Radicals, however, responded positively. William Roscoe (father of Mary Anne Jevons ) hailed MW in a poem satirising Burke. Appearing shortly before Tom Paine 's Rights of Man on 1 February 1791, the book...

In Paris MW met several of her radical friends from London, like Tom Paine , as well as Helen Maria Williams and her lover John Hurford Stone . She also met French revolutionaries like Manon Roland

FW 's father was James Wright, junior , a Dundee linen merchant, knowledgeable coin collector, and an admirer of Thomas Paine and the principles of the French Revolution.