Charles James Fox

Standard Name: Fox, Charles James
Used Form: C. J. Fox

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1998.
118-19
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, 1997, pp. 179-04.
184-7
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
242ff
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...
politics Ann Jebb
Her obituarist wrote that her zeal in the cause of civil and religious liberty was unabated by her husband's death.
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
661
In 1789 she deprecated the doctrine of hereditary right advanced by Charles James Fox
politics Mary Russell Mitford
In politics MRM was known as a Foxite: that is, she supported the Whigs under Charles James Fox , the more progressive opposition to the government. On 17 June 1814 she attended an Abolitionist meeting...
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...
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...
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
The following year, a book was published in response to GS , written in French by Francis d'Ivernois
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
By this time, too, her political contacts included...
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
In 1802, in London and...
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
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
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

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