Thomas Percy

She began her project as a money-earning one, but was later able to declare that the proceeds would go to charity. A further motive was patriotic and nationalistic: to counter the English (even, sometimes, the...

Early in the new century JW vigorously defended her activities as an author against the criticism that her support of female domesticity accorded ill with her own high visibility in the public sphere. The grounds...

With this work appeared AS 's Ode to the Sun. Richard Lovell Edgeworth later categorically alleged that the best passages in the elegy were in fact written by Erasmus Darwin , and this story...

She visited the aged Thomas Percy at Dromore in County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1810.