John Law

Her father, Charles Forman , was an Irish clerk in the English War Office, whose exercise of Jacobite sympathies in the rebellion in the year of Charlotte's birth compelled him to flee to France (with...

John Law, MH 's pseudonym, may have been chosen in tribute to the early eighteenth-century French director of finance, John Law of Lauriston, who is sometimes thought of as one of the first state...

Satires on women, she says, are enough, one would imagine, to make the hardest Forehead blush. But American women apparently do not blush, though they are colonial copy-cats in other ways: you mimick Great...

JL 's reputation grew rapidly, especially abroad. From 1696 she had to warn readers against works spuriously printed in her name. She aroused opposition with some of her opinions, among them the idea that hell...

Her daughter Charlotte painted an attractive picture of her life as conventional and devout: she educated her daughters herself, enjoyed reading tragedies (more than romances), and philosophical or theological writings like those of John Law