Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France

MR published her Monody to the Memory of the Late Queen of France.

Her early (though not quite so early as was thought before Alix Nathan 's research) and notorious love-affairs made her sexuality, luridly represented, an important element in her public persona. Many cartoons circulated which represented...

MR writes as a friend to the Revolution, but enters with strong emotion into the personal situation of the queen as the victim of scandal and prejudice. She cites Elizabeth I and Cromwell as examples...

The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the...

Sarah belonged to a number of libraries, both the circulating and the subscription variety. She seldom missed a new publication either in English or French. She was more critical of what she read than was...

AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...

Shocked by the Reign of Terror in France, GS from her exile in Switzerland published Réflexions sur le procès de la reine: a brave anonymous pamphlet pleading for the queen 's life.

The protagonist couple in this novel are both US Communists in the 1940s. Stephen Howard is an Ivy-League-educated child of privilege; his wife, Emily Wilkes, who says she comes from Hix-on-the-Stix, is an exuberant...

She recommends the study of history, and her moral exhortation leans heavily on anecdotal, historical examples. (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.) She cites Queen Elizabeth (among many others) as a...

This volume combines prose stories for children with a few poems suitable for adult readers. E. H. Plumptre later quoted two entire poems from this book in his memoir of SW which was published...

MW was replying to a number of authoritative male texts about the nature of women: by Burke (who in Reflections on the Revolution in France had glorified Marie-Antoinette and dismissed non-queenly femininity as animal), Rousseau

AY published An Elegy on Marie Antoinette.