Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland

She had a couple of desultory affairs, one with a bankrupt surgeon and another with Colonel Vassall , a Boston merchant whom she had met abroad. She represents both these relationships as dominated by her...

Late in life EOB ran a kind of salon which was remarkable for being bohemian and operating on a shoestring: with tea rather than wine (unlike the lavish salons of contemporary society hostesses like Lady Holland

This novel was an instantaneous success. Of the second edition the Critical Review (of May 1802) wrote: Seldom have we met with any combination of incidents, real or imaginary, which possessed more of the deeply...

Elizabeth, Lady Holland , remarked that this was said to be better than LCB 's other books, but suggested that this was not much of a recommendation.

Maria Edgeworth read this novel on its appearance (firmly preferring it to Jane Austen's Emma), and two years later mentioned it as the title defining FJ 's achievement. Published almost simultaneously with Austen

Like her birth family, LCL strongly supported a Whig and reformist political agenda. She told her cousin Lord Hartington , I have read Mary WollstonecraftRights of Woman, am become a convert. She also...

She contacted several people (including the novelist Lady Dacre and the Whig hostess and diarist Lady Holland ) for support in her application, which was fuelled by the examples of the pensions granted to Sydney Morgan

The title-page quotes supposedly from Pope but actually from Prior : Nor tears that wash out sin, can wash out shame. A news-item printed in the preliminary pages, allegedly from the Morning Post of...

The printed selection begins with girlhood letters to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's elder daughter. It goes on to include correspondence with friends and publishers, analyses of feelings and comments on the experience of pregnancy...

Using as a foundation her affair with Byron (not its actual events but its emotional impact), LCL tells a melodramatic, gothic tale in rhapsodic, overblown style. Critic Paul Douglass thinks the fourteen lyrics included in...

By 1912 VW had published on Margaret Cavendish (as Duchess of Newcastle), Ann, Lady Fanshawe , Elizabeth Carter , Anna Seward , Elizabeth, Lady Holland , Maria Edgeworth , Lady Hester Stanhope , theBrontë

Particular sketches include an allegory sent to Mary Leadbeater entitled The Birth of Calumny and the later Holland House, written in the person of the Ghost of La Bruyère. This, in a...