Thomas Paine

This epistolary novel is highly political; its preface asserts a woman's right to interest in politics. The letters in it span the period from June 1790 to February 1792, tracking the events of the French...

Throughout the story Dorcasina's episodes with various lovers have been separated by lapses of time, generally years. The real world occasionally signals its existence, generally through somebody's illness or death. In the final episode, which...

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...

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...