John Wilkes

Standard Name: Wilkes, John

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Latter
The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler ). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!,
Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher.
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it proceeds...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Moody
Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM addresses Joseph Priestley on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet on...
Textual Production Catharine Macaulay
CM 's Bath printer, Cruttwell , was said (by John Wilkes ) to be printing her personal letters to Thomas Wilson and William Graham ; Wilkes and Wilson meant these to ruin her reputation.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
112
Textual Production Charlotte Forman
CF addressed to John Wilkes , as the great asserter of the Rights of Englishmen,
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
33
the first of ten remarkable letters containing vivid accounts of her struggles with poverty and ill health.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
28, 30, 32-3
Textual Production Charlotte Forman
CF again painted a vivid picture of her poverty and ill health in her last surviving letter to John Wilkes .
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
31, 42-3
Textual Production Charlotte Forman
CF shifted from the Gazetteer (which in a different context she called that execrable Vehicle of scandal and defamation!)
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
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to the Public Ledger in 1760, a year in which the latter paper carried...
Residence Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
She apparently lived at Prebendal House, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, whence the preface of her first volume was dated in November 1849.
Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Lines and Leaves. Chapman and Hall.
preface
The house is an eighteenth-century building once owned by John Wilkes .
Publishing Maria Barrell
This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page.
Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats.
prelims
The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...
Publishing Sarah Fielding
The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield
Author summary Charlotte Forman
Writing in the later eighteenth century, CF was a major contributor to the periodical press, with a total that may have reached about 375 of political essays in letter form, averaging something like 1,300 words...
politics Catharine Macaulay
CM had two circles of political friends: that of her brother John, which included members of the Society of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights , and that of the Real Whigs, who...
politics Mary Latter
ML subscribed enthusiastically to the pro-John Wilkes , anti-Lord Bute views of the radical Opposition at the time of George III 's accession. She saw English society as corrupt and decadent, and looked...
Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
The Political Register printed a satire, The Marriage of Junius to Miss Laetitia Liberty: CM (in the Character of Freedom) and Wilkes both figure in the wedding procession.
Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, pp. 19-48.
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Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
Walpole thought CM 's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke (coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
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Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
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But John Wilkes astutely pointed out...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Seymour Montague
The title and structure of the poem suggest Pope 's Essay on Man, 1733-4. MSM echoes Pope's lines repeatedly, turning their meaning to reflect her own different emphases. Where Pope sets out to vindicate...

Timeline

1755: Wealthy West Indian proprietor William Beckford...

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1755

Wealthy West Indian proprietor William Beckford (father of the author of the same name) launched The Monitor, the first newspaper to appeal explicitly to London freeholders, that is the well-to-do urban middle class.

June 1762: John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched...

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June 1762

John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched the anti-government paper The North Briton; on 23 April 1763 the notorious number 45 attacked the king's speech and indirectly made Wilkes into a hero of radical opinion.

23 April 1763: John Wilkes and Charles Churchill's North...

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23 April 1763

John Wilkes and Charles Churchill 's North Briton number 45 attacked the king's speech; the arrest of Wilkes and the printers followed.

15 November 1763: The House of Lords learned of the existence...

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15 November 1763

The House of Lords learned of the existence of the scurrilous, obsceneEssay on Woman by Thomas Potter and John Wilkes , after its private, thirteen-copy edition for members of the Hell Fire Club had...

7 September 1765: Lloyd's Evening Post reported that the chevalier...

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7 September 1765

Lloyd's Evening Post reported that the chevalier d'Éon and John Wilkes had each been attacked by six ruffians in the streets of London.

January 1768: The radical Political Register celebrated...

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January 1768

The radical Political Register celebrated the learning and political acumen of the chevalier d'Éon, publishing long extracts from his works.

February 1768: James Boswell published his composite work...

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February 1768

James Boswell published his composite work on the Corsican liberation struggle: An Account of Corsica; the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli.

4 February-13 April 1769: Disputes occurred over John Wilkes's right...

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4 February-13 April 1769

Disputes occurred over John Wilkes 's right to take his seat in the House of Commons , from which he had been expelled for the first time in 1764.

20 February 1769: The Bill of Rights Society was founded at...

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20 February 1769

The Bill of Rights Society was founded at the London Tavern by John Horne (later John Horne Tooke ), John Sawbridge , Thomas Wilson , and others, to support Wilkes and to defend the legal...

3 March 1770: Hissing from supporters of John Wilkes prevented...

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3 March 1770

Hissing from supporters of John Wilkes prevented the opening performance of a pro-government play, Word to the Wise by Hugh Kelly at Drury Lane .

After April 1770: Two reforms were passed by parliament: MPs'...

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After April 1770

Two reforms were passed by parliament: MPs' immunity from civil prosecution was ended, and the Elections Act provided committees to investigate contested elections.

By 26 March 1771: All London was agog over the chevalier d'Éon's...

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By 26 March 1771

All London was agog over the chevalier d'Éon's real sex: the issue was hotly debated, and bets laid.

1774: John Wilkes called on parliament to introduce...

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1774

John Wilkes called on parliament to introduce universal manhood suffrage.

30 April 1776: John Wilkes, in a plan for parliamentary...

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30 April 1776

John Wilkes , in a plan for parliamentary reform, put forward a proposal for universal male suffrage; Richard Price had recently, in Observations on Civil Liberty, also proposed abolishing the House of Lords .

May 1817: Opposition publisher William Hone was arrested...

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May 1817

Opposition publisher William Hone was arrested for blasphemous libel on the strength of three politicalpamphlets that parodied the Book of Common Prayer.

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