John Wilkes

CM had two circles of political friends: that of her brother John, which included members of the Society of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights , and that of the Real Whigs, who...

ML subscribed enthusiastically to the pro-John Wilkes , anti-Lord Bute views of the radical Opposition at the time of George III 's accession. She saw English society as corrupt and decadent, and looked...

Writing in the later eighteenth century, CF was a major contributor to the periodical press, with a total that may have reached about 375 of political essays in letter form, averaging something like 1,300 words...

This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page. The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...

The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield

She apparently lived at Prebendal House, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, whence the preface of her first volume was dated in November 1849.

CF addressed to John Wilkes , as the great asserter of the Rights of Englishmen, the first of ten remarkable letters containing vivid accounts of her struggles with poverty and ill health.

CF again painted a vivid picture of her poverty and ill health in her last surviving letter to John Wilkes .

CF shifted from the Gazetteer (which in a different context she called that execrable Vehicle of scandal and defamation!) to the Public Ledger in 1760, a year in which the latter paper carried...

CM 's Bath printer, Cruttwell , was said (by John Wilkes ) to be printing her personal letters to Thomas Wilson and William Graham ; Wilkes and Wilson meant these to ruin her reputation.

Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM addresses Joseph Priestley on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet on...

The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler ). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!, it proceeds...