Edmund Burke

According to the Monthly Review, LMW was the author of a pamphlet, Observations on Mr. Burke 's Bill for the Better Regulation of the Independence of Parliament, addressed from a Lady to Lord North .

MOW wrote a preface for Catharine Macaulay 's polemic Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke , on the Revolution in France (published at London in late 1790). She re-issued her preface...

The Aubreys, a family of six, are already used to the chaotic lifestyle created by their father, a newspaper editor whom West described in her notes as a reincarnation of Edmund Burke . Some...

JW published An Elegy on the Death of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke.

This is either the beginning or (as her numbering of later volumes suggests) a prelude to HMW 's Letters from France: an extended series of reports on and analyses of the Revolution, its development...

The book had a good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft , in the Analytical for December 1790. The interesting, unaffected letters which this pleasing writer has now presented to the public reminded the...

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...

Joseph Johnson brought out, anonymously, MW 's A Vindication of the Rights of Men, the first published answer to Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France.

MW was replying to a number of authoritative male texts about the nature of women: by Burke (who in Reflections on the Revolution in France had glorified Marie-Antoinette and dismissed non-queenly femininity as animal), Rousseau

They included The first book of a series of lessons for children (written for MW 's elder daughter, Fanny Imlay ); a series of personal letters addressed to Imlay (passionately expressive, ruggedly self-analytical), and to...