Charles James Fox

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , appeared on the hustings with Charles James Fox , parliamentary candidate for Westminster, and publicly kissed him.

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was instrumental in saving Fox 's ministry during a crisis over the finances of the Prince of Wales .

In June 1795 (the year after reading Godwin 's Political Justice) MR became involved in a case in which Irish tinkers, threatened with being pressed as vagrants into the British Navy , had resisted...

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , again supporting Charles James Fox in his election campaign, was credited as author of his victory.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Charles James Fox drew on this work for an influential anti-war speech of the same year. The following year, a book was published in response to GS , written in French by Francis d'Ivernois

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

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 . In 1802, in London and...

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. By this time, too, her political contacts included...

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...

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

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.