Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
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Characters | Anne Damer | The novel, told in a fairly low-pressure third-person narrative, traces the lives and courtships of Lord Belmour and his sister Lady Caroline. Their father, the Earl of Delavere, has a house in London and a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Dacre | He argued that the recent Treaty of Paris (3 September 1783, officially ending the war in the American colonies) was causing hardship and emigration to America. He addressed his work to Charles James Fox |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | MR
's first lover after the prince was Lord Malden
, who had brought her Florizel's first letter. She had many affairs, including one with Charles James Fox
, who bailed her out financially. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994. xii-xiii Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993. 13: 34-5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | It was generally assumed from Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
's close political association with Charles James Fox
that she was his mistress. If they did indeed have an affair, it was the result, not the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stockdale | His trial and acquittal were said to have been the spur for Fox
's Libel Act of 1792. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John Stockdale |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | She had already by this date, on a visit to London, met Boswell
, the biographer, and found him a stranger biped than any she knew. MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975. 63 |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb
, Lady Cork
, and painters James Northcote
and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix. xxxvii |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany
, Elizabeth Montagu
, and Samuel Johnson
. From 1777 she... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Harcourt | MH
and her husband
subscribed in 1803 to Poems by the widowed Mrs George Sewell (Mary Sewell)
. Other subscribers included Elizabeth Carter
, Elizabeth Cobbold
, Catherine Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Arabella Rowden |
Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine de Staël | Charles James Fox
drew on this work for an influential anti-war speech of the same year. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , 2001, pp. 12-35. 26 |
Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | The Critical launched its highly laudatory review with an elaborate allusion to MRM
's Foxite stance in politics, and the obloquy which this had drawn on her earlier published works. With ironic indirection it argued... |
Other Life Event | Grace Elliott | GE
was arrested at her house in Paris, for possessing a letter addressed to Charles James Fox
, which had been sent to her by Sir Godfrey Webster
from Naples, in hopes that she... |
politics | Charlotte Dacre | |
politics | Anne Damer | AD
was a Fox
ite Whig, who helped her friend the Duchess of Devonshire
in her campaign for Fox in the famous election of May 1784. She later championed |
politics | Mary Robinson | MR
moved in radical literary circles; her friends were writers and intellectuals with a mission to change the world. She observes that of male servants the most loyal she found over the course of her... |
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