John Wilkes

She seems to have been a personal friend of John Wilkes , and embroidered him a sword-knot as a birthday present.

With her husband CM lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan after she had become a writer. She subscribed to Elizabeth Carter 's translation of Epictetus . Of her radical friends Thomas Hollis

Robinson found good friends among the male cultural and social leaders with whom she remained free to mix. Her daughter particularly mentions, as well as Sheridan , Sir Joshua Reynolds , Edmund Burke , and...

John Wilkes became her staunch friend and patron: she built this relationship herself through the wit, charm, and pathos of her letters. Another patron, the Earl of Hillsborough , proved disappointing as a source of...

FW 's close friend Robina Millar had written letters of introduction for her and her sister, and once in New York they made the acquaintance of the conservative Charles Wilkes , nephew of the radical...

The Rev. Thomas Wilson , whose home CM shared for some time, was a widower, an ambitious churchman, and a book-collector. He was absentee rector of St Stephen Walbrook in London. He had been...

At twenty-one, he was much younger than she was (though many exaggerated the age difference), and of a lower rank (a saddler's son, and at the time of their marriage a surgeon's mate). He was...

Philip Thicknesse's anarchic energy tended to change the environments in which he and his family lived. Felixstowe Cottage acquired more and more whimsical decoration under his ownership; in the hills near Quoit he set up...

In SK 's life, as in her sister's, their father, John King , the former Jacob Rey, loomed large. He was a self-made man, a money-lender, a political radical and associate of Wilkes , the...

One of CM 's brothers, also named John Sawbridge , grew up a radical like herself. He became a member of parliament and Lord Mayor of London. He had a friendship with John Wilkes

In her final letter to Wilkes , on 9 April 1770, she had described her breaking health in such terms as make it surprising that she could live for another seventeen years afterwards.

One might suppose that CF was without personal religious belief, since she flattered the notoriously atheistical Wilkes with the idea that he was likely to be more charitable than somebody devout. On the other hand...