MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Margaret Croker | MC
prefaced it with a verse dedication to Thomas, Lord Erskine
(an eminent lawyer who had defended Thomas Paine
for publishing the Rights of Man). She praises him for charity and patriotism. A second... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Calderwood | |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | She had already by this date, on a visit to London, met Boswell
, the biographer, and found him a stranger biped than any she knew. MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press. 63 |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | They included public men like George Canning
, John Philpot Curran
, and Lord Erskine
, and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble
, George Colman
the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | A few years later, as a published author, MRM
became friendly with James Perry
(editor of the Morning Chronicle). At his house she met a number of eminent men: politicians Lord Brougham
and Lord Erskine |
Occupation | Maria Riddell | In the same year, 1803, she was suggested by Thomas Erskine
as a suitable person to become governess to the seven-year-old Princess Charlotte
, who stood second in line for the British throne. She wrote... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Moody | Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM
addresses Joseph Priestley
on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette
on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet
on... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | The indignant preface claims that the play was seen with delight by the most distinguished and numerous part of the audience, Wallace, Eglinton. The Ton, or Follies of Fashion. A Comedy. T, Hookham. i |
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