Millecent Thomas

Standard Name: Thomas, Millecent

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Mariana Starke
Her closest contemporary friend was Millecent Parkhurst , daughter of the scholarly clergyman John Parkhurst . This family also lived in a still surviving Epsom house, Abele Grove.
Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere, 26 July 2012.
Leisure and Society Mariana Starke
MS and her family were great supporters of literature through the subscription system. She subscribed in 1781 to Anne Francis 's Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon, from the original Hebrew, which was...
Publishing Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Genlis' daughters gave performances of these plays to large audiences (up to five hundred people).
Dow, Gillian. “Books owned by Jane Austen’s niece, Caroline, donated to Chawton House Library”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
1 n.s.
, No. 4, 2015, pp. 1-3.
2
The work was several times translated into English (beginning in late 1780) as The Theatre of Education. A...
Textual Production Mariana Starke
A version of children's plays by Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis , The Theatre of Education. A New Translation from the French, appears to be the anonymous work of MS and the little-known Millecent Thomas (formerly Parkhurst).
Dow, Gillian. “The British Reception of Madame de Genlis’s Writings for Children: Plays and Tales of Instruction and Delight”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 3, 2006, pp. 367-81.
369
Pitcher, Edward W. “Mariana Starke and Millecent Thomas: Early Translators of Genliss Le théâtre à lusage des jeunes personnes (1779-1780)Notes and Queries, Vol.
45 (243)
, No. 1, Mar. 1988, pp. 81-2.
81-2

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Texts

Genlis, Stéphanie-Félicité de. The Theatre of Education. Translators Starke, Mariana and Millecent Thomas, J. Walker, 1787, 4 vols.