John Wilkes

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...

In SK 's life, as in her sister's, their father, John King , the former Jacob Rey, loomed large. He was a self-made man, a money-lender, a political radical and associate of Wilkes , the...

CF addressed to John Wilkes , as the great asserter of the Rights of Englishmen, the first of ten remarkable letters containing vivid accounts of her struggles with poverty and ill health.

CF again painted a vivid picture of her poverty and ill health in her last surviving letter to John Wilkes .

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...

One might suppose that CF was without personal religious belief, since she flattered the notoriously atheistical Wilkes with the idea that he was likely to be more charitable than somebody devout. On the other hand...

John Wilkes became her staunch friend and patron: she built this relationship herself through the wit, charm, and pathos of her letters. Another patron, the Earl of Hillsborough , proved disappointing as a source of...

In her final letter to Wilkes , on 9 April 1770, she had described her breaking health in such terms as make it surprising that she could live for another seventeen years afterwards.

CF shifted from the Gazetteer (which in a different context she called that execrable Vehicle of scandal and defamation!) to the Public Ledger in 1760, a year in which the latter paper carried...

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

She seems to have been a personal friend of John Wilkes , and embroidered him a sword-knot as a birthday present.

This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page. The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...