I could light my pipe at her eyes
Ian Gilmour: Women and politics in Victorian Britain, 3 September 1998
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
by Amanda Foreman.
HarperCollins, 320 pp., £19.99, May 1998,0 00 255668 5 Show More
by Amanda Foreman.
HarperCollins, 320 pp., £19.99, May 1998,
Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain
by K.D. Reynolds.
Oxford, 268 pp., £35, April 1998,0 19 820727 1 Show More
by K.D. Reynolds.
Oxford, 268 pp., £35, April 1998,
Lady Byron and Earl Shilton
by David Herbert.
Hinckley Museum, 128 pp., £7.50, March 1998,0 9521471 3 0 Show More
by David Herbert.
Hinckley Museum, 128 pp., £7.50, March 1998,
“... accurately, inserted into a well constructed narrative. She does, however, make a rare hash of the Gordon Riots, which broke out in June 1780. Starting off with the wrong date, she tells us that the crowd blocked all the entrances to Parliament while Lord George Gordon stormed into the Commons. The MPs fell silent at his ... ”