Thomas Moore

The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...

An epilogue by Thomas Moore sounds flippantly critical of Bluestockings (not the historical group of this name, but in the more general sense of intellectual women). A speaker appears wondering much what little knavish sprite...

MAB 's discussion of schools leads her into an account of a visit made by the Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder , to a later Zulu chief, Cetshwayo , taken from a blue-book or government report...

The sixteen- or seventeen-year-old Tom Moore , in his student days, frequented HB 's poverty-stricken one-room lodgings; he described her as odd, acute, warm-hearted, and intrepid.

This addresses, says its title, the Illustrious Stephen III, King of Dalkey, Emperor of the Mugglins, Grand Master of the Noble, Illustrious and Ancient Orders of the Lobster, Crab, Scollop . . . .

Not all HB 's satires and lampoons reached print. Thomas Moore , who records that she published for the sake of much-needed cash, also mentions some impromptu lines on his own performance in a university...

The title and epigraph of the book are taken from reflections on fallen humanity uttered in Thomas Moore 's Lalla Rookh.

CB was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting , who edited in 1796 the first volume...

She quotes L. E. L. on her title page, and dedicates her work (these early efforts of my timid Muse) to Princess Augusta Sophia . A preface by an unnamed male friend...

In Italy GC met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood , Caroline Norton 's elder sister. Back in England, she met and liked Walter Savage Landor . She moved and entertained...

From early in her life she was (like her sister) a friend of the poet Tom Moore .

LSC made many friends in England, notably including the baronet and politician Sir Francis Burdett , his wife Lady Burdett (born Sophia Coutts, member of a famous banking family), and their youngest daughter, who later...

She had been working on these translations for some years. This handsome work was (in the words of the old Dictionary of National Biography) enriched with curious illustrations laboriously executed by hand, by...

Thomas Mulock was a poet, essayist, and pamphleteer who published throughout his life. As a young man he wrote articles for the Sun which impressed William Jerdan , and he soon also began producing pamphlets...

The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...