The Gunpowder Plotters Finish:Float frame This term for learned woman

This term for learned woman derives from an eighteenth-century club of literary women in London

8th Duke of Beaufort

the driver and passengers had to brave the weather

Palmerston is packing away all the bills left over from the recently finished session

unable to find a purchaser for his debt-laden estate at Ealing

The Gunpowder Plotters Finish:Float frame This term for learned womanThe Gunpowder Plotters, early 17th century, (1910). The conspirators, from a picture painted in 1606: Robert Winter, Christopher Wright, John Wright, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Catesby, and Thomas Winter. The hats, the falling bands, and the tightly fitting doublets are distinctive features of the ordinary persons, if we omit the unkempt hair. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).