Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
John Shebbeare
Standard Name: Shebbeare, John
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By November 1754: John Shebbeare anonymously published The...
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By November 1754
John Shebbeare
anonymously published The Marriage-act. A Novel, in which a whole range of marital and broader calamities are laid at the door of Hardwicke
's recent Marriage Act.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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1758: The Tory writer John Shebbeare was sentenced...
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1758
The Tory writer John Shebbeare
was sentenced to stand in the pillory for writing Letters to the People of England, a scathing attack on the Newcastle
government.
Hudson, Nicholas. “Discourse of Transition: Johnson, the 1750s, and the Rise of the Middle Class”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
