Edmund Burke

Sarah belonged to a number of libraries, both the circulating and the subscription variety. She seldom missed a new publication either in English or French. She was more critical of what she read than was...

MAS adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In...

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...

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...

With some apology, FR uses a visual aid, a diagram, to show the relation between Nature, Beauty, Truth, Sublimity, and so on. Outside the immediate realm of art she passes on some received ideas...

CR said that her father was an old Whig, and it appears that her own politics were of the same stamp. She favoured social reforms like improved education for women, and welcomed the early...

Udolpho opens on the banks of the River Garonne in the year 1584, and moves into the Alps. The text again has poems interspersed. The landscape against which the action unfolds is treated like...

She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity, and hopes this book will arouse a deeper interest than that about France, since it concerns an object so...

Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds , Arthur Murphy , Edmund Burke , Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Burney , and David Garrick . Later came the young Frances Burney , who became a...

Bedford had, a few years before the appearance of this poem, been the chief target of Burke 's magnificent polemic A Letter to a Noble Lord. Opie did not read Burke's attack until several...

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...

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...

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...

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.