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Charles James Fox
Standard Name: Fox, Charles James
Used Form: C. J. Fox
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Lady Charlotte Bury | LCB
also edited novels by other writers. As the authoress of Flirtation she edited Lady Caroline Scott
's A Marriage in High Life, 1828 (of which another edition appeared in 1836). |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
| 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... |
| 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 | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, again supporting Charles James Fox
in his election campaign, was credited as author of his victory. Foreman, Amanda. “A politician’s politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the Whig party”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, pp. 179-04. 184-7 Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press. 242ff |
| Textual Production | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, composed for the Duke of Bedford
a poem in praise of Charles James Fox
to be displayed in a temple of Whiggish friendship at Bedford's Woburn estate. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 371 |
| 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... |
| politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | The significance of her political activity has only recently been appreciated. Historians have tended to see her as a dilettante, a great lady amusing herself. The originality and the effectiveness of her forays into the... |
| 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... |
| politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, appeared on the hustings with Charles James Fox
, parliamentary candidate for Westminster, and publicly kissed him. Parliament had been dissolved on 1 September; after the elections, the new... |
| politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, was instrumental in saving Fox
's ministry during a crisis over the finances of the Prince of Wales
. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 118-19 |
| Textual Production | Catherine Gore |
Timeline
17 June 1783: Sir Cecil Wray, a maverick independent politician...
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17 June 1783
Sir Cecil Wray
, a maverick independent politician and reformer, presented in the House of Commons
a Quaker petition for the abolition of slavery.
5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...
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5 November 1788-10 March 1789
George III
's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales
.
2 March 1790: Charles James Fox proposed in the House of...
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2 March 1790
Charles James Fox
proposed in the House of Commons
the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters
). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four years).
11 May 1792: Fox again proposed in the House of Commons...
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11 May 1792
Fox
again proposed in the House of Commons
that civil rights should be extended to Dissenters
; Burke, who had defended Dissenters in the past, furiously disagreed.
1 June 1792: Charles James Fox's Libel Act passed the...
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1 June 1792
Charles James Fox
's Libel Act passed the House of Lords
. It altered the handling of libel cases (including seditious libel) in England and Wales: juries were given the right to decide, instead...
1797: Charles James Fox hinted, as the merest possibility,...
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1797
Charles James Fox
hinted, as the merest possibility, the idea that educated women might appropriately vote.
13 September 1806: Charles James Fox died, only nine months...
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13 September 1806
Charles James Fox
died, only nine months after he had assumed power as British Prime Minister following the death of his great rival and opponent, William Pitt
.
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