Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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John Dalton
Standard Name: Dalton, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Carter | EC
was courted by John Dalton
, the tutor and preacher who was suspected of having had an affair with Lady Luxborough
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Lickbarrow | John Dalton
chemist and physicist, son of a Quaker weaver in Cumberland (who is remembered as one of the originators of modern physical science), was her cousin, whose mother, Isabella's great-aunt Deborah Dalton
, helped... |
| Friends, Associates | Isabella Lickbarrow | She was acquainted with her scientist cousin
. She entered into a brief, unsatisfactory patronage relationship with Lord Lonsdale
, a local magnate and patron of William Wordsworth. Parrish, Constance. “Isabella Lickbarrow’s Relationship to John Dalton”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 46 , No. 1, Mar. 1999, p. 34. 34 Parrish, Constance. “Isabella Lickbarrow to Lord Lonsdale: A Newly Discovered Letter”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 46 , No. 4, Dec. 1999, pp. 448-9. 448-9 |
| Instructor | Isabella Lickbarrow | She may also have attended the Quaker school in Kendal where Dalton
was a teacher. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
| Wealth and Poverty | Isabella Lickbarrow | John Dalton
left the sisters three hundred pounds each in trust when he died on 27 July 1844. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Dalton |
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