Charles James Fox

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 .

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , again supporting Charles James Fox in his election campaign, was credited as author of his victory.

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.

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...

The significance of her political activity has only recently been appreciated. Historians have tended to see her as a dilettante, a great lady amusing herself. The originality and the effectiveness of her forays into the...

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...

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...

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...

The novel, told in a fairly low-pressure third-person narrative, traces the lives and courtships of Lord Belmour and his sister Lady Caroline. Their father, the Earl of Delavere, has a house in London and a...