Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
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Education | Maria Callcott | MC
later remembered this, like her former school, as anti-intellectual. She was warned against too much study. I used to hear that it was a pity I was not a boy . . . but... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Eleanor Butler | They were outraged, and at once sought legal advice from Edmund Burke
(who had experienced image problems of a not dissimilar kind). Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 83-4 Brideoake, Fiona. “Keep Yourself in Your Own Persons, Where You Are: The Ladies of Llangollen and Queer Self-Fashioning”. 42nd ASECS Annual Meeting, 18 Mar. 2011. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Ormiston Chant | In 1888, at the first meeting of the International Council of Women
, LOC
identified herself as a grandniece of Edmund Burke
, but it is possible that she was speaking figuratively rather than literally. Donohue, Joseph. Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894. University of Iowa Press, 2005. 23, 25 “Horbury Chapel, Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, Kensington”. AIM25. London Metropolitan Archives, Jan.–Mar. 2009. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | He was in his early twenties, just embarking on a literary career which began with writing poetry (melancholy in tone) and editing and criticising the poetry of others. He enjoyed the patronage of Edmund Burke |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Leadbeater | ML
's grandfather Abraham Shakleton
was a writer, and founded and taught at Ballitore School
; his pupils included his son (who later carried on the school) and Edmund Burke
. He died on 24... |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 157 |
Friends, Associates | Oliver Goldsmith | Goldsmith met and became a friend and associate of Edmund Burke
, Samuel Johnson
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and others belonging to the Club, of which he was a founder member. He was a... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Anne Barnard | Lady Anne lived much of her life in fashionable society, and her acquaintance was very wide. In Edinburgh in her early twenties she impressed and delighted Samuel Johnson
with an impromptu and complimentary bon mot... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During her childhood, ECK
associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds
(sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Leadbeater | While in England ML
visited Edmund Burke
at Beaconsfield. He had attended school and university with her father and had been taught by her grandfather; he made his final visit to Ballitore in 1786... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Maria Williams | She used her opening sentence to link this book with its predecessor. Again she addressed herself to answering Burke
(implicitly referencing him in denying that the age of chivalry is dead), by means of arguing... |