Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford

I wrote the introduction to the Vintage Classics Frederick the Great

'I can never tell you the fascination of Fred,' Nancy Mitford wrote. She was fascinated by the Prussian King, scholar, unifier of his nation, war leader and sponsor of Voltaire and so turned away from French court history to explore his life. She completed Frederick the Great just before she succumbed to Hodgkin's Disease in 1970, saying wistfully, 'I would like to be a pretty young General and gallop all over Europe & never have another ache or pain.' Written with wit and verve, the biography was a great success and was, the Telegraph declared, 'definitive'.

As Nelson and Emma became famous, novels poured off the presses in which they starred as the romantic leads. I write about this in my essay ''Nelson and Women' in Admiral Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy, edited by David Cannadine.

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My article, ‘Nelson and Emma: a Very Public Affair’ is published on
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Academic Articles

‘“The Force of Language and the Sweets of Love”: Eliza Haywood and the Erotics of Reading in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa’, Lumen, Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2004 (22), pp. 309-323.
‘ Reading Tristram Shandy in the Brothel’, The Shandean, 16 (2005), pp. 114-118.
‘ Passion in Translation: 1720s Amatory Writers and the Novel’, in Remapping the Rise of the Novel, ed. Jenny Mander (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2006).
I also reviewed for publications and contributed entries on writers for The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. Stephen Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer (New York: Continuum, 2003).
I am revising my doctoral thesis, ‘Richardson and Amatory Fiction’ (Oxford University, 2004), for publication.