Charles James Fox

Standard Name: Fox, Charles James
Used Form: C. J. Fox

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Wealth and Poverty Mary Robinson
At the time that the prince approached MR (with large money offers as well as emotional declarations) she was £7,000 in debt.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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After they split up, it took two years of wrangling for...
Travel Anne Plumptre
Taking advantage of the new freedom of English people to visit post-Revolutionary France, she joined forces with John and Amelia Opie to travel first to Paris. She stayed there for eight months (not enough...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catherine Gore
Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales and his mistress Lady Jersey downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox , apostrophised as one of the great and...
Textual Production Anne Damer
AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...
Textual Production Grisell Murray
Fifty years after her death, some of the more striking passages
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie.
viii
of GM 's writings about both her parents reached print as Lady Murray's Narrative, appended to George Rose 's Observations on the...
Textual Production Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , composed for the Duke of Bedford a poem in praise of Charles James Fox to be displayed in a temple of Whiggish friendship at Bedford's Woburn estate.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
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Textual Production Catherine Gore
CG anonymously published with Colburn another highly successful novel, Memoirs of a Peeress; or, The Days of Fox.
Some sources follow not the title-page but the opening page and the running head of the...
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB also edited novels by other writers. As the authoress of Flirtation she edited Lady Caroline Scott 's A Marriage in High Life, 1828 (of which another edition appeared in 1836).
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In 1837 she...
Textual Features Maria Riddell
MR 's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill (the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (St...
Textual Features Mary Tighe
Most of MT 's published poems are private, friendship, and domestic pieces, but some have political content. Written in a Copy of Psyche which had been in the library of C. J. Fox rejoices (with...
Textual Features Lucille Iremonger
Her opening chapter addresses her own experience, with heartfelt reminiscence about the impact of political campaigning on married life. She sets out to combat the view of the candidate's (later the member's) wife either as...
politics Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , appeared on the hustings with Charles James Fox , parliamentary candidate for Westminster, and publicly kissed him.
Parliament had been dissolved on 1 September; after the elections, the new...
politics Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was instrumental in saving Fox 's ministry during a crisis over the finances of the Prince of Wales .
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
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politics Maria Riddell
In June 1795 (the year after reading Godwin 's Political Justice) MR became involved in a case in which Irish tinkers, threatened with being pressed as vagrants into the British Navy , had resisted...
politics Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , again supporting Charles James Fox in his election campaign, was credited as author of his victory.
Foreman, Amanda. “A politician’s politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the Whig party”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, pp. 179-04.
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Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press.
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17 June 1783: Sir Cecil Wray, a maverick independent politician...

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17 June 1783

Sir Cecil Wray , a maverick independent politician and reformer, presented in the House of Commons a Quaker petition for the abolition of slavery.

5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...

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5 November 1788-10 March 1789

George III 's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales .

2 March 1790: Charles James Fox proposed in the House of...

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2 March 1790

Charles James Fox proposed in the House of Commons the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters ). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four years).

11 May 1792: Fox again proposed in the House of Commons...

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11 May 1792

Fox again proposed in the House of Commons that civil rights should be extended to Dissenters ; Burke, who had defended Dissenters in the past, furiously disagreed.

1 June 1792: Charles James Fox's Libel Act passed the...

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1 June 1792

Charles James Fox 's Libel Act passed the House of Lords . It altered the handling of libel cases (including seditious libel) in England and Wales: juries were given the right to decide, instead...

1797: Charles James Fox hinted, as the merest possibility,...

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1797

Charles James Fox hinted, as the merest possibility, the idea that educated women might appropriately vote.

13 September 1806: Charles James Fox died, only nine months...

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13 September 1806

Charles James Fox died, only nine months after he had assumed power as British Prime Minister following the death of his great rival and opponent, William Pitt .

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