Edmund Burke

CGOB quotes Henry Grattan on her title-page, Edmund Burke at the head of the first chapter in volume two, and, to head the opening chapter of volume one, words from the Fenian Captain MacKay...

The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare through Racine in French, Prior and Pope to Sterne and Burke , plus a couple of unidentified women....

Notable features of the book are the friendship between the heroine, Celestina, and a servant, Jessy (whose life-story is one of oppression and deprivation), and the handling of a prostitute (seduced at the age of...

This epistolary novel is highly political; its preface asserts a woman's right to interest in politics. The letters in it span the period from June 1790 to February 1792, tracking the events of the French...

MAS adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In...

MW was replying to a number of authoritative male texts about the nature of women: by Burke (who in Reflections on the Revolution in France had glorified Marie-Antoinette and dismissed non-queenly femininity as animal), Rousseau

With some apology, FR uses a visual aid, a diagram, to show the relation between Nature, Beauty, Truth, Sublimity, and so on. Outside the immediate realm of art she passes on some received ideas...

They included The first book of a series of lessons for children (written for MW 's elder daughter, Fanny Imlay ); a series of personal letters addressed to Imlay (passionately expressive, ruggedly self-analytical), and to...

The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the...

She used her opening sentence to link this book with its predecessor. Again she addressed herself to answering Burke (implicitly referencing him in denying that the age of chivalry is dead), by means of arguing...

She strikes a newly bold, almost an insurrectionary note here, calling upon revolutionary France, indeed, to provide a model. [W]hatever is corrupted must be lopt away, she writes, as people assert their long forgotten...

Sarah belonged to a number of libraries, both the circulating and the subscription variety. She seldom missed a new publication either in English or French. She was more critical of what she read than was...

The book had a good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft , in the Analytical for December 1790. The interesting, unaffected letters which this pleasing writer has now presented to the public reminded the...

Walpole thought CM 's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke (coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. But John Wilkes astutely pointed out...

The Aubreys, a family of six, are already used to the chaotic lifestyle created by their father, a newspaper editor whom West described in her notes as a reincarnation of Edmund Burke . Some...