Edmund Burke

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...

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...

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.

Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for...

This pamphlet and Jebb's follow-up to it are both witty and down-to-earth. William Bull here tells his brother you know they talk of a war . . . of a war without fresh taxes; but...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This work draws on her diary, and gives a lively picture of local life at Ballitore over nearly sixty years (ending in 1823). She goes into some detail about her family and her early memories...

CM published the first of her two pamphlets in answer to Edmund Burke : Observations on a Pamphlet, entitled, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.

CS had been writing this novel through the momentous revolutionary events in France; she was working on it in Brighton in November 1790 when Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France was published. She...