Robert Walpole first Earl of Orford

Of a journey by water from Hampton Court in Middlesex to London on a wonderfully fine October day, she writes: Nothing in the World could be pleasanter than the Passage, nor give One a better...

The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville on the pains of sensibility. She and her father kneel alternately to each other when she...

SG 's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day, whether in religion, politics...

After the death of Queen Caroline , EB addressed a poem on this event to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole : The Vision; or, The Royal Mourners, A Poem.

Frances, Lady Hertford , kept a fragmentary political journal coinciding with the end of Robert Walpole 's long tenure of power as Prime Minister.

Curll had already twice attempted to cash in on DM 's success: first with The New Atalantis for the Year 1713 and then in early 1715 by advertising The German Atalantis. Written by a Lady...

Few of GM 's letters survive, but in winter 1737-8 she was writing to her uncle Alexander, Earl of Marchmont (the little brother Sandy of her memoir about her mother). She offered him shrewd...

LP published a second pamphlet, the ironically-titled An Apology for the Minister.

The author deliberately confuses her or his identity: a fictional correspondent cites contradictory opinions as to whether it is EH , or some other daughter of Behn or Manley , or a man dissimulating his...

This poem opens, with Boyd's typical energy and oddity, on a gloomy evening with fog, gales, rain, skies ablaze with meteors, and ravens (perhaps the symbolic ones from the Tower of London) behaving oddly...