Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
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Thomas Day
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Standard Name: Day, Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Maria Edgeworth | Belinda Portman possesses both sense and sensibility. When she arrives in London under the aegis of a match-making aunt, she has to live down a ready-made reputation as a fortune-hunter. (This enables Edgeworth to comment... |
| Education | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
later remembered her responsibility, when very young, of escorting her two next younger brothers to their school. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | From childhood MAS
had the opportunity of contact with remarkable people. At Birmingham she learned through a Miss de Luc the extraordinary story of Thomas Day
and his attempts to educate one of two girls... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Harcourt | MH
and her husband
subscribed in 1803 to Poems by the widowed Mrs George Sewell (Mary Sewell)
. Other subscribers included Elizabeth Carter
, Elizabeth Cobbold
, Catherine Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Montagu
, Arabella Rowden |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Jacson | The Jacson sisters became acquainted with the literary circle in Lichfield which also included Erasmus Darwin
, Anna Seward
, and Thomas Day
, as well as their cousin Sir Brooke Boothby
, who probably introduced them there. Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 23 , No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 1990, pp. 301-17. 308 |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | Probably through their cousin Sir Brooke Boothby
, the Jacson sisters became acquainted with an intellectually-minded group of people of both sexes based in Lichfield: Erasmus Darwin
as well as Anna Seward
and Thomas Day |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | It opens with a breezy, antifeminist, adversarial Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend. The gentleman is hostile to female education and female authorship; his letter is based on one actually sent by Day |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Literary historian J. S. Bratton
maintains that the influence of Thomas Day
's tale The History of Sandford and Merton underlies CMT
's educational and didactic works. Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm, 1981. 81 |
| Literary responses | Anna Seward | Most reviews were positive, except the Edinburgh, which attacked the work as confusing, unstructured, and spurn[ing] the fetters of vulgar, chronological narration. qtd. in Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 236-7 |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Reflecting CMT
's strong interest in the natural sciences, the fairy character lures children into learning more about this topic. The book's index includes entries such as fermentation and Copernicus, and discusses the cotton... |
| Textual Production | Maria Edgeworth | During the same year, ME
's father
and first stepmother
planned a series of dialogues for children. Their dialogues were to be called Harry and Lucy. Thomas Day
was to contribute to the project... |
| Textual Production | Maria Edgeworth | ME
's overall pedagogic project (shared with her father) was a programmatic rejection Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 75-93. 82 |
| Textual Production | Maria Edgeworth | This work was published by Joseph Johnson
, who paid her forty pounds for it. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 492 Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 490-1 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
here relates the lives of five people who succeeded in living according to [c]oherent schemes of human behaviour, putting into practice their own theories of the good life. Cato (The Stoic) and George Sand... |
Timeline
1770: The Lichfield Circle began to develop at...
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1770
The Lichfield Circle began to develop at Lichfield in Staffordshire; the group advocated reform of women's education away from time-filling accomplishments such as japanning and toward intellectual learning.
Rourke, Sherri. The Lichfield Circle and Female Education. University of Alberta, 1985.
7-33
1783-89: Thomas Day anonymously published The History...
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1783-89
Thomas Day
anonymously published The History of Sandford and Merton, a didactic book for children in three volumes (the second published in 1786).
Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 75-93.
82-3
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
68 (1789): 327
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
16 December 1789: The Society for Constitutional Information...
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16 December 1789
The Society for Constitutional Information
(a potentially radical political organization) held its semi-annual meeting at the London Tavern, to commemorate the centenary of the Bill of Rights.
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
113
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
59 (1789): 1183
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