John Wolcot

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...

The Critical Review expressed impatience with yet another collection of memorabilia and complained that the book was deformed by colloquial barbarisms. She was attacked in newspapers (even those which began with respect)...

Percy was a great hit, with twenty-one performances, and 4,000 copies sold by March 1777. HM made £600 from it in the theatre, and £150 from Cadell for the copyright. She thought, however, the public...

Again this work generated both a flood of praise (much of it in letters, some coming from religious leaders or from royalty) and a storm of criticism and abuse. The Bishop of London...

The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful...

FON is not, however, the most single-minded of flatterers. In complimenting James Hurdis , Oxford Professor of Poetry, she carelessly gets his Christian name wrong. And having once approached Sir Joseph Banks (naturalist, explorer, and...

To accept this work as HB 's raises some problems for her biography: her single use of the name Polly Pindar, her presence at Ipswich, and her detailed interest in events or persons local to...