Thomas Jefferson

This story addresses the contact of different cultures so beloved by RPJ : Thomas Jefferson the enlightenment slave-owner, US ambassador in the pre-revolutionary Paris of 1784-9. She drew on Fawn Brodie 's controversial biography (...

They were highly sociable on their travels. As former supporters of the cause of American independence they met with Thomas Jefferson . After their return to England they continued to enlarge their circle. In July...

She also owed to her father's contacts the early patronage (crucial for both herself and her husband) of Nathaniel Ryder, Lord Harrowby . Another friendship formed in Tiverton was that with artist Richard Cosway ...

In Paris she stayed at the Hôtel Vendome, and through Maria Cosway and other contacts met Thomas Jefferson and many social and cultural leading lights of Paris.

Though MOW 's strongest friendships were probably with men (John Adams , Thomas Jefferson , and others), some friendships with women were very important to her, notably that with Abigail Adams . In her...

Early, informal response centred on the play's daring political message, which made SHR famous or notorious. People spoke of the play as Americans in Algiers or Slaves Released from Algiers.William Cobbett attacked her...

Merchant-Ivory 's controversial and largely unpopular Jefferson in Paris was finally released; in its original form RPJ 's script dates back to the 1980s.

TW 's play Jefferson 's Garden was published, set in the American colonies in 1776 and borrowing a title recently used for a book of garden history. It opened at Watford Palace Theatre the same month.

Habitués of her salon included Lafayette , Condorcet , Narbonne , Talleyrand , and Thomas Jefferson . In the following months she conspired with others to attempt the escape from revolutionary hands of aristocratic...

Elstob probably succeeded in modifying Swift 's views: he later adopted some of hers.Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of this publication.

The book begins with a dedication to those states of the American Union in which slavery has been abolished, or never permitted. The name of the title character borrows from Thomas Jefferson , whom...

These include the Jefferson Cantos, which champion the rationality of America's founders, contrasted to the darkness of Europe.

This first volume argues strenuously that anomalies in national institutions will have pernicious effects on the laws and ultimately imperil the union itself. Within this context HM refers both to the system of chattel slavery...