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Mrs Sheridan's active demon: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Sly Rake in Petticoats (2003)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2003). Mrs Sheridan's active demon: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Sly Rake in Petticoats. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 18(1), 39-62. https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2003.6

This article examines the ways in which Frances Sheridan, matriarch to one of Ireland's most significant literary families, singularly asserted her contribution to writing after Richardson in her successful and enduringly popular novel, Memoirs of Mi... Read More about Mrs Sheridan's active demon: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Sly Rake in Petticoats.

Richard, son of Richard: Richard III and political prophecy (2000)
Journal Article
Coote, L., & Thornton, T. (2000). Richard, son of Richard: Richard III and political prophecy. Historical research : the bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 73(182), 321-330. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.00111

This article provides a new context for the politics surrounding the death of Edward IV, the accession of Edward V and his replacement in turn by Richard III. By examining prophecy texts, both those recorded at the time and those preserved in local t... Read More about Richard, son of Richard: Richard III and political prophecy.