... letters, memoirs, essays, poetry, drama, diaries and State papers innumerable. Here are mighty battles being fought abroad; Whigs, Tories, Jacobites intriguing at home. The personal jealousies and rivalry of statesmen, the quarrels of various ladies round ...

... Monmouth rising he (eagerly anti- Jacobite) acclaimed that second revolution which was to instate William III. and Mary. His Whig views, his political acumen and the favour he found with the King himself, gave Defoe position during that dual reign. But ...

... which merit atten tion, David Emerson's Dark Bright Rose (Hurst and Blackett, 9s. 6d.) presents vividly that high-spirited Whig beauty, the Hon. Mrs. Caroline Norton, Sheridan's grand daughter, her unhappy marriage to a Tory bully, and the loss of her ...

... same triangle, inside the same circle the triangle being the Devonshire House menage a trois, the circle being the brilliant Whig aristocracy which (in the late eighteenth century) surrounded it. We have the fifth Duke, his high-spirited Duchess, and the ...

... found it when I entered. A delightful book which takes us intimately into late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Whig society and of the days of Napoleon, Nelson, Wellington and the Prince Regent is Dorothy Margaret Stuart's Dearest Bess (Methuen ...