Henry St John first Viscount Bolingbroke

The group comprised both authors and patrons. Other members were Dr John Arbuthnot , Thomas Parnell , and Lords Oxford and Bolingbroke . The writers among the club sent doggerel invitations to their meetings to...

EH 's socio-political allegory stands virtually alone in her oeuvre in its attempt to reproduce the political instrumentality of Manley 's scandal fiction during the reign of Anne. In its witty preface EH presents...

The tradition of such pedagogic books for young royals included Fénelon 's Télémaque and Bolingbroke 's Idea of a Patriot King. HM resembled them in her emphasis on character-building and the study of...

The ending of her last novel sounds as if she subscribed to the ideas put forward by Lord Bolingbroke about the leadership potentially offered by a patriot king. Such ideas were re-surfacing with the prospect...

This poem, which sets out to map humanity's place in the cosmic scheme, takes the form of epistles addressed to Lord Bolingbroke . The last of the series appeared on 24 January 1734.

LMWM must have written her (arguably even more trenchant) attack, P[ope] to Bolingbroke, by June 1735; but she did not publish it. Bolingbroke, Tory politician, charismatic rake, and serial political turncoat, was a man...

The commonplace-book throws light on Collier's other extant writings as well. A casual mention of what Sally calls the Turba proves definitively that at least one neologism in The Cry stemmed not from her but...