Edmund Burke

Jewsbury's anonymity enables her to leave her personal friendship with Hemans out of the picture. She distinguishes between male poetic power and female poetic beauty in a manner that goes back to Burke 's Origin...

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...

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

ML published at Dublin herPoems, with a lengthy subscribers' list. The copy at the University of California at Berkeley has an engraved portrait of Edmund Burke tipped in.

ML 's name is identified with that of the Quaker village of Ballitore in County Kildare, whose cultural historian she was throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Though this Irish author wrote...

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...

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...

She writes of her family and friends, her literary mentor Burke , of domestic emotions (Never may our hearts refuse / To share another's pain) and of public issues, for instance in The...

This work draws on her diary, and gives a lively picture of local life at Ballitore over nearly sixty years (ending in 1823). She goes into some detail about her family and her early memories...

CM published the first of her two pamphlets in answer to Edmund Burke : Observations on a Pamphlet, entitled, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.

CM published another pamphlet answer to a former antagonist: Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke , on the Revolution in France.

Walpole thought CM 's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke (coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. But John Wilkes astutely pointed out...

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...

These essays are not closely related to the aesthetic text by Edmund Burke (published in April 1757) to which their title makes allusion. They contribute to the contemporary debate on the respective value of fiction...

CGOB quotes Henry Grattan on her title-page, Edmund Burke at the head of the first chapter in volume two, and, to head the opening chapter of volume one, words from the Fenian Captain MacKay...