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| Dedications | Anna Maria Mackenzie | This novel is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The dedication is dated 1 March and the book was reviewed by July. An advertisement for AMM
's previous novel appears at the... |
| Education | C. E. Plumptre | Though nothing is know of CEP
's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould
noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which... |
| Education | Cassandra Cooke | Since her sister produced such large-scale, serious writings (without, apparently, any thought of publishing them) it seems that the Leigh girls must have been well educated. They grew up within but probably insulated from the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gilding | The poems in pastoral form include religious meditations, hymns for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian festivals, love complaints, and addresses to abstracts such as Pride and Sincerity. Despair is a dramatic mini-narrative, beginning Moments on... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | After a preface on the subject of religion in fiction, an introductory chapter announces (though it anticipates the reader may lose interest here) that the narrator of the novel is to be a spinster of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Child readers of Jackanapes sometimes remember better the portrait of a wild little boy, bold and generous but naughty in many ingenious ways, than the account of his heroic, self-sacrificing death in battle, with quotations... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gaskell | The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG
's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | She sets out, said the Critical Review, to critique the Revolution, unfolding its causes and probable consequences. |
| Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1995. 19 |
| Textual Features | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
welcomes the way that Adam Smith
and other Scottish Enlightenment writers have made womanhood a branch of philosophy, not a little interesting. qtd. in O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 106 |
| Textual Features | Zadie Smith | Meanwhile Samad, under the pressure of menial work, low pay, constant low-level racist harrassment, a rebellious wife and insubordinate children, turns to religion. He nevertheless has an affair with one of his sons' teachers, and... |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
's introduction cites Adam Smith
's Theory of Moral Sentiments. Her full title was A Series of Plays: In Which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind—Each Passion Being... |
| Textual Production | Edith J. Simcox | She began work on this book as early as 1878. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961. 75 |
Timeline
1748-51: Adam Smith delivered lectures on rhetoric...
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1748-51
Adam Smith
delivered lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres at Edinburgh University
: the first significant university programme devoted to the analysis of English literary discourse.
Hawkes, Terence. “Dr Blair, the Leavis of the North”. London Review of Books, 18 Feb. 1999, pp. 23-4.
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O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
89-91, 144
1759: Adam Smith published with the Scottish firm...
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1759
Adam Smith
published with the Scottish firm of Millar, Kincaid and BellThe Theory of Moral Sentiments.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
81-2
27 April 1762: The chair of Rhetoric to which Hugh Blair...
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27 April 1762
The chair of Rhetoric to which Hugh Blair
(1718-1800) had been appointed at Edinburgh in 1760 was converted to a Regius Professorship of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
Hawkes, Terence. “Dr Blair, the Leavis of the North”. London Review of Books, 18 Feb. 1999, pp. 23-4.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
9 March 1776: Adam Smith published An Inquiry into the...
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9 March 1776
Adam Smith
published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Sales were much higher than expected by the publisher, William Strahan
, who had produced a print-run of 500...
By October 1779: William Alexander argued strongly in his...
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By October 1779
William Alexander
argued strongly in his History of Women that an index to the place of any culture in the scale of civil society is its treatment of its women.
Alexander, William, 1742 - 1788, and Jane Rendall. History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity to the Present Time. Thoemmes Press, 1995, 2 vols., http://U of A Ruth N .
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O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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1823: William Huskisson, as MP for Liverpool and...
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1823
William Huskisson
, as MP for Liverpool and President of the Board of Trade
, secured the equalization of customs duties in Britain and Ireland, a big step on the road towards free trade.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Huskisson
10 October 1957: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, her last novel,...
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10 October 1957
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
, her last novel, set her Objectivist philosophy in stone: I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your...
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