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...
politics
Anne Francis
AF
was a conservative royalist who rejoiced repeatedly at the recovery of George III
from his first bout of illness (and wrote a song for the local Sunday school pupils to rejoice too) and praised...
Textual Features
Christian Isobel Johnstone
The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know).
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd, 1828.
title-page
It portrays the widow Mrs...
Timeline
9 June 1792: Gillray published a remarkable political...
National or international item
9 June 1792
Gillray
published a remarkable political cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil: personified versions of Queen Charlotte
, William Pitt
, and Lord Thurlow
.
Hill, Draper. Mr. Gillray, the Caricaturist. Phaidon Press, 1965.
