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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… Richard Price, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Richard Sheridan, John Horne Tooke and Catharine Macaulay, all mobilised against Edmund Burke, the author of an impactful anti-revolutionary pamphlet in 1790 ( Reflections on the Revolution in France ). ‘Don … the lens of English culture. References to British authors (including key figures such as Shakespeare, Sterne, Pope and Burke) and comparisons between French and English sociabilities (individuals, practices, places, objects, etc.) are …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… as well as the proceedings of tavern-based societies, such as those of Richard Price’s Revolution Society decried in Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France . 8 Newspapers became an important medium for publicizing the activities … listed the toasts, which were increasingly seen as a shorthand for the principles upon which a society operated. 8 . See Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, (London: Penguin Classics, 1986), p. 86-89, p. 93-117. … Area, in the Age of the American Revolution’, The Historical Journal (vol. 14, n° 1, 1971), p. 15-47. Newman, Ian, ‘Edmund Burke in the Tavern’, European Romantic Review (vol. 24, n° 2, 2013), p. 125-148. Newman, Ian, The Romantic …

Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]

… as among the leading eighteenth century British literary figures and royalty. He was a close friend of David Garrick, Edmund Burke and Henry Fielding, was celebrated by Alexander Pope and even admired by royalty, in particular King George II … and cultural elites’ ( O’Shaughnessy 559-584). Macklin also belonged to the debating Robin Hood Society where he met Edmund Burke and was associated with political and legal circles like the Grecian Coffeehouse, a meeting place for …

James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]

… became friends with a set of men he might not otherwise have met, or met so soon and so favourably. These included Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith; but other friends, like John Wilkes, and various members of …

Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]

… as receiving a bribe is no more in India than complying with an established custom’ . 14  This was a case of what Edmund Burke called ‘geographical morality’, a moral relativity dependent on local customs. 15 14 . Rev. John Logan, A Review of the Principal Charges against Warren Hastings Esq (1789), p. 45. 15 . The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, in sixteen volumes (London: printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, 1808-1827), vii, p. 104.  James Gillray, …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]

… If ye love not your earthly parent, how can ye love your father in heaven?’ (McFarland 126-127) Coleridge thus adopted a Burkean vision of the importance of domestic affections for the formation of society. Like Burke, Coleridge believed that familial affections set the foundations of man’s love to his nation, and to humanity at … feelings of dread, or nightmares in his notebooks so as to trace their origins to specific periods of his life: 8 . Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to …