Benjamin Franklin

She planned to dedicate it to Benjamin Franklin , and to charge subscribers twelve pounds for bound and nine for unbound copies (an indication that colonial prices were higher than those in Britain).

AJV 's father, John Vardill , was born in the American colonies in 1749 and educated at King's College , New York (the forerunner of Columbia University). In 1773 he became Professor of Natural Law...

An engagement to William Franklin , natural son of Benjamin Franklin , ended, painfully for her, in his marriage to somebody else.

While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR ) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks , George Fordyce , Ralph Griffiths ,...

Her friendships, largely maintained by correspondence, took in many of the eminent men of the day: Benjamin Franklin , James Logan , Benjamin Rush , and the historian Robert Proud . Most of these visited...

Her enumeration of those she met in London is impressive, including several noblemen, Benjamin Franklin , the scientist Daniel Solander , the religious poet and hymn-writer Thomas Gibbons , the abolitionist Granville Sharp (who took...

The Guide to Scotland opens with instructions: Provide yourself with a strong roomy carriage, and have the springs well corded; have also a stop-pole and strong chain to the chaise. Take with you linch-pins, and...

SW became widely known for her various activities. She not only took care of her family (and later the family of her brother James) but also raised silkworms on a large scale, and was regarded...

She appended her signature in the same form as before, S. Pennington, to her preface. The subscribers are a highly impressive collection in terms of social status; few writers subscribed and those, like Lord Chesterfield

BRP 's essays in this volume include The Two Fredericks and Franklin 's America.

She described its large, handsome garden as a magnet for visitors, the meetings of the Assembly of Pennsylvania there when Isaac Norris was Speaker and too infirm to attend elsewhere, its fortunes during the war...

TT dedicated her work to all Columbian Young Ladies who read Novels & Romances, and headed it with a Latin proverb translated as Learn to be wise by others harm, / and you shall do...

A few of SW 's numerous letters have reached print: among the papers of Benjamin Franklin , for example.

SW is said to have had a hand (with her brother James ) in a pamphlet published in 1763 and generally attributed to Benjamin Franklin , defending the native Indians and condemning a recent massacre...

The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan , William Lovett