Charles James Fox

Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales and his mistress Lady Jersey downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox , apostrophised as one of the great and...

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

Her opening chapter addresses her own experience, with heartfelt reminiscence about the impact of political campaigning on married life. She sets out to combat the view of the candidate's (later the member's) wife either as...

Her obituarist wrote that her zeal in the cause of civil and religious liberty was unabated by her husband's death. In 1789 she deprecated the doctrine of hereditary right advanced by Charles James Fox

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...

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...

Fifty years after her death, some of the more striking passages of GM 's writings about both her parents reached print as Lady Murray's Narrative, appended to George Rose 's Observations on the...

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...

Taking advantage of the new freedom of English people to visit post-Revolutionary France, she joined forces with John and Amelia Opie to travel first to Paris. She stayed there for eight months (not enough...

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...

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...

MR 's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill (the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (St...

At the time that the prince approached MR (with large money offers as well as emotional declarations) she was £7,000 in debt. After they split up, it took two years of wrangling for...

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.

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...