Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… was acquainted to Charles James Fox (1749-1806), the Whig MP and leader of the opposition to William Pitt the Younger’s Tory government. Sheridan joined the Whig fraternity with Fox and William Windham (1750-1810) and Edmund Burke, … a novelist ( The Triumph of Prudence over Passion , 1781). 10 The Rivals (1775 ) , a play based on Sheridan’s love story and elopement with Elizabeth Ann Linley and the two duels he fought against Captain Thomas Matthews, was also …
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