Thomas Moore

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...

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...

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...

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...