He took with him a presentation copy of Godwin
's newly-published Political Justice.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
8
The next year he published part one of a translation from French: Memoirs of General Dumourier, a military leader...
Family and Intimate relationships
Eglinton Wallace
EW
's contact with Dumourier
in England provided material for the scandal sheet Bon Ton, which constructed a ribald narrative out of Lady Eglantine Wallace's romantic misadventures in the last issue of 1793.
Morris, Marilyn. “Marital Litigation and English Tabloid Journalism: Crim. Con. in The Bon Ton (1791-1796)”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
28
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 33-54.
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Friends, Associates
Eglinton Wallace
In forming her friendship, both personal and politically inflected, with General Charles-François Dumourier
, EW
was singling out a professional soldier, a traveller, and one of those whose loyalties fluctuated with the political situation. Having...
politics
Eglinton Wallace
By the time of her European visit of 1792 she had given offence, by the anti-Catholicism expressed in her Letter to Capt. William Wallace, to authorities in Liège and Spa.
Wallace, Eglinton. The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez. 2nd Edition, J. Debrett, 1793.
78-9
At Liège she...
Residence
Eglinton Wallace
EW
spent a good deal of time in continental Europe. She is said to have left London for foreign countries in 1788, after her second play was damned in the theatre. But she gave the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Eglinton Wallace
She opens with an apology for any lack of clarity in the Conduct, caused by her writing in such haste. She dismisses the French national character as infantile though precocious, just emerging from the...