The volume opens with an anti-war poem (as well as reprinting Anna's Complaint and The Temptation) and includes several pieces on deaths: of family members, of a baby, of Edward Lovibond
, of Horace Walpole
Travel
Thomas Gray
The great adventure of Gray's life was his accompanying Horace Walpole
on the Grand Tour, 1739-41. Each young man left a vivid description of their passage over the Alps into Italy. Their time abroad...
Travel
Ann Radcliffe
Within a month or so they were off again, to the English Lake District, visiting their relations in the north on the way (AR
's parents were now settled in Chesterfield). This...
Wealth and Poverty
Anne Damer
John Damer had lost £20,000 at the gaming tables in a single night not long before his death—a sum to cast a shadow over his expectations of inheriting £30,000.
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.