Charles James Fox

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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.

CG anonymously published with Colburn another highly successful novel, Memoirs of a Peeress; or, The Days of Fox.

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). In 1837 she...

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...

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...