David Hume

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)...

MAK says that her first publication, hastily written and apparently unidentified, consisted of two little tales, which fell dead-born from the press. Since this phrase is borrowed from David Hume , it sets herself in...

The first letter is entitled On the Principles of Religion; HMC assures her niece that she is one of your warmest friends. She cautions about choice of friends and even more about choice of...

She includes poems for poets, artists, and thinkers: George Herbert , Charles Causley , Philip Larkin , J. M. W. Turner , Caravaggio , Chardin , Goya , Hume , and Descartes . A sequence...