Edmund Burke

Jewsbury's anonymity enables her to leave her personal friendship with Hemans out of the picture. She distinguishes between male poetic power and female poetic beauty in a manner that goes back to Burke 's Origin...

She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity, and hopes this book will arouse a deeper interest than that about France, since it concerns an object so...

This is either the beginning or (as her numbering of later volumes suggests) a prelude to HMW 's Letters from France: an extended series of reports on and analyses of the Revolution, its development...

The introductory essay named in the title is a history and an analysis of (in Burke 's phrase a philosophical enquiry into) Dissent in Britain. Its topics include the loss of status for ministers who...

Udolpho opens on the banks of the River Garonne in the year 1584, and moves into the Alps. The text again has poems interspersed. The landscape against which the action unfolds is treated like...

Subscribers included the Princess of Wales, royal Dukes, members of the nobility, and Edmund Burke .

The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed . It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...

ML published at Dublin herPoems, with a lengthy subscribers' list. The copy at the University of California at Berkeley has an engraved portrait of Edmund Burke tipped in.

ML 's name is identified with that of the Quaker village of Ballitore in County Kildare, whose cultural historian she was throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Though this Irish author wrote...

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...

The Aubreys, a family of six, are already used to the chaotic lifestyle created by their father, a newspaper editor whom West described in her notes as a reincarnation of Edmund Burke . Some...

Walpole thought CM 's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke (coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. But John Wilkes astutely pointed out...

The book had a good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft , in the Analytical for December 1790. The interesting, unaffected letters which this pleasing writer has now presented to the public reminded 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...

With some apology, FR uses a visual aid, a diagram, to show the relation between Nature, Beauty, Truth, Sublimity, and so on. Outside the immediate realm of art she passes on some received ideas...