Benjamin Rush

EGF had met novelist Laurence Sterne and botanist-physician John Fothergill in London. Among her large circle of friends at home, other writers were prominent. She knew the poet Nathaniel Evans and the physician and educator...

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...

With her husband CM lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan after she had become a writer. She subscribed to Elizabeth Carter 's translation of Epictetus . Of her radical friends Thomas Hollis