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...motives, commenting grimly, ‘I know well the class Miss W. is most anxious to please in London’; and it was at her insistence (she was a formidable woman) that the publication did in the end present the tunes with their Welsh words. [A portrait of Lady Llanover and a photograph of Maria Jane Williams side by side.]Left: Lady Llanover (painted in 1862 by Mornewicke),...

...motivation for fleeing to the continent in 1816 was both financial (he was looking to escape various money worries) and political. Poems such as Queen Mab, with its call for revolutionary change, had been a direct challenge to the political status quo in Britain, and marked him out as a subversive if not seditious element in society. Shelley’s soon-to-be wife, Mary...

...motives for his behaviour … The title of hero depends upon success, that of the great man does not always depend upon it. His principle is virtue which is as unshakeable in prosperity as in misfortune. In short, humanity, gentleness and patriotism conjoined to talent constitute the virtues of the great man; bravura, courage, often temerity, knowledge of the art of war...