Charles James Fox

It appears from some of her poems (praise of Pitt , dispraise of Fox ), as well as from her eldest son's name, that CD was a Tory like her husband, or at least a...

Her obituarist wrote that her zeal in the cause of civil and religious liberty was unabated by her husband's death. In 1789 she deprecated the doctrine of hereditary right advanced by Charles James Fox

AD was a Fox ite Whig, who helped her friend the Duchess of Devonshire in her campaign for Fox in the famous election of May 1784. She later championed Queen Caroline at the time of...

In politics MRM was known as a Foxite: that is, she supported the Whigs under Charles James Fox , the more progressive opposition to the government. On 17 June 1814 she attended an Abolitionist meeting...

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , appeared on the hustings with Charles James Fox , parliamentary candidate for Westminster, and publicly kissed him.

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was instrumental in saving Fox 's ministry during a crisis over the finances of the Prince of Wales .

GE was arrested at her house in Paris, for possessing a letter addressed to Charles James Fox , which had been sent to her by Sir Godfrey Webster from Naples, in hopes that she...

The Critical launched its highly laudatory review with an elaborate allusion to MRM 's Foxite stance in politics, and the obloquy which this had drawn on her earlier published works. With ironic indirection it argued...

Charles James Fox drew on this work for an influential anti-war speech of the same year. The following year, a book was published in response to GS , written in French by Francis d'Ivernois

She had already by this date, on a visit to London, met Boswell , the biographer, and found him a stranger biped than any she knew. By this time, too, her political contacts included...

Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany , Elizabeth Montagu , and Samuel Johnson . From 1777 she...

MH and her husband subscribed in 1803 to Poems by the widowed Mrs George Sewell (Mary Sewell) . Other subscribers included Elizabeth Carter , Elizabeth Cobbold , Catherine Fanshawe , Elizabeth Montagu , Arabella Rowden

She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb , Lady Cork , and painters James Northcote and Sir Joshua Reynolds . In 1802, in London and...

It was generally assumed from Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's close political association with Charles James Fox that she was his mistress. If they did indeed have an affair, it was the result, not the...

MR 's first lover after the prince was Lord Malden , who had brought her Florizel's first letter. She had many affairs, including one with Charles James Fox , who bailed her out financially.