Thomas Hollis

With her husband CM lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan after she had become a writer. She subscribed to Elizabeth Carter 's translation of Epictetus . Of her radical friends Thomas Hollis

By undertaking archival work in seventeenth-century pamphlets, CM set out to ensure that her history should surpass that of Hume (who was generally regarded as a Tory historian, though he was ambivalent about this label)...

Though CM 's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray and Horace Walpole thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we...

Thomas Hollis made a present to CM of about 145 antiquarian volumes, mostly political tracts from the Civil War period: this began her career as a book collector.

CM had two circles of political friends: that of her brother John, which included members of the Society of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights , and that of the Real Whigs, who...