Charles James Fox

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...

His trial and acquittal were said to have been the spur for Fox 's Libel Act of 1792.

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

At the time that the prince approached MR (with large money offers as well as emotional declarations) she was £7,000 in debt. After they split up, it took two years of wrangling for...

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.

MR moved in radical literary circles; her friends were writers and intellectuals with a mission to change the world. She observes that of male servants the most loyal she found over the course of her...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fifty years after her death, some of the more striking passages of GM 's writings about both her parents reached print as Lady Murray's Narrative, appended to George Rose 's Observations on the...

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...

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...

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