Thomas Paine

Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson

The work is headed with a motto: Feeling, not genius, prompts the lay, and a stanza from James Beattie 's The Minstrel. Contents include both Nova Scotia and Inscription for a temple, in a...

Will Chip (with the support of Jack Anvil the blacksmith) admonishes Tom Hod, the mason, who has become discontented on reading Tom Paine . The non-revolutionary characters invoke the subordination of women (and of children...

Several of the Cheap Repository Tracts specifically answer texts by Voltaire or Paine . The eponymous Shepherd of Salisbury Plain has an invalid wife, six children, an income of eight shillings a week, and...

In Paris MW met several of her radical friends from London, like Tom Paine , as well as Helen Maria Williams and her lover John Hurford Stone . She also met French revolutionaries like Manon Roland

FW 's father was James Wright, junior , a Dundee linen merchant, knowledgeable coin collector, and an admirer of Thomas Paine and the principles of the French Revolution.

John King , father of CD and Sophia King , dated a letter to Tom Paine on political developments in France.

CD 's father was born Jacob Rey , a Portuguese Sephardic Jew in London. Tom Paine the radical later recalled that as a poor and friendless child in Ailiffe-Street, an obscure part of the...

MC prefaced it with a verse dedication to Thomas, Lord Erskine (an eminent lawyer who had defended Thomas Paine for publishing the Rights of Man). She praises him for charity and patriotism. A second...