Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang, 1986.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Ruth Padel | RP
has seen her commitment to poetry as including a commitment to encouraging and instructing readers of it. Invited by the Poetry Society
to stand for election as its Chair, she was persuaded to do... |
| Occupation | John Dryden | By this time Dryden's two careers as writer and dramatist were well launched. The first depended on his ability to please the Stuart court, and the second on his ability to please a theatre audience... |
| Occupation | Anna Williams | When she was first in London AW
found plenty to occupy her, both activities undertaken for interest and those undertaken for earnings to support herself and her father. She became an assistant to Zachary Williams |
| Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She had lost her brother to smallpox, and narrowly escaped herself. She probably went to Turkey primed with accounts which had reached the Royal Society
in London of the Turkish practice of inoculation, and determined... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | Nineteenth-century literary historians—Charles Dibdin
, John Doran
, Jane Williams
—tended, though from different viewpoints, to subordinate her writings to her supposed personal characteristics. |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Cavendish | John Evelyn
, as a member of the Royal Society
, several times visited the Duke
and Duchess of Newcastle
(sometimes with his wife
) to arrange their visit to the Society. Cavendish, Margaret. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Editors Bowerbank, Sylvia and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000. 91 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution
, and took lessons in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary More | MM
' daughter, Elizabeth
, was seventeen when she was married, on 17 April 1680, to Alexander Pitfield
, a close friend and associate of her brother. Pitfield was treasurer to the Royal Society
from... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Atkins | Anna's father, John George Children
, was an amateur scientist during his years as a gentleman of leisure, and made a living from scientific work when that became necessary. He was twice Secretary of the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Nihell | By 1754 she was back in London with her husband, who was apparently the James Nihell
, surgeon-apothecary and Fellow of the Royal Society
, from a distinguished medical family, who died on 1 June... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | Her father, Captain Charles Granville Wheler
, was a great-nephew of Sir George Wheler
, a traveller, clergyman, scholar, and early member of the Royal Society
, who had a family estate in Kent. (... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | E. A. Dillwyn | Lewis Weston Dillwyn
, EAD
's paternal grandfather and the Quaker son of a famous abolitionist, owned the Cambrian
pottery in Swansea. In 1804 he became a fellow of the Royal Society
on the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Drake | Judith was married to James Drake
: Fellow of the Royal Society
, physician and writer on medicine and politics, and they had at least two children, one of each sex. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Judith Drake |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Isham | Their brother, later Sir Justinian Isham
(1611-75), became a royalist during the Civil War and a founder member of the Royal Society
. He married in 1634, and his wife, Jane, had five babies (all... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Margaretta Larpent | AML
's father, Sir James Porter
, who as a young man had gone into business after a comparatively scanty education, later became a distinguished diplomat (he was British Ambassador at Constantinople when Anna Margaretta... |
Timeline
28 October 1831: Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated...
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28 October 1831
Michael Faraday
successfully demonstrated the induction of electromagnetic current.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
258
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
35
25 January 1839: William Henry Fox Talbot's invention, photogenic...
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25 January 1839
William Henry Fox Talbot
's invention, photogenic drawing (using what later became known as a photographic negative), was exhibited by Michael Faraday
to the Royal Society
in London.
Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.
655
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
69
Schaaf, Larry J. Out of the Shadows. Yale University Press, 1992.
47
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996.
307
Science in the Nineteenth Century. Editor Taton, René, Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol.
3
, Basic Books, 1965. 150
Early 1839: The first photogenic drawing kits were made...
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Early 1839
The first photogenic drawing kits were made and sold by Ackermann and Company
of London.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
69
Buckland, Gail. Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography. Scolar Press, 1980.
51
1848: Doctor Hugh Welch Diamond became resident...
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1848
Doctor Hugh Welch Diamond
became resident physician of the female ward at Surrey County Asylum; he introduced the concept of psychiatric photography for female surveillance.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
86-7
1854: The Scottish Curative Mesmeric Association...
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1854
The Scottish Curative Mesmeric Association
was founded; its supporters included Sir Thomas Makdougall-Brisbane
, President of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh.
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
213
1862: Educator Anne Sheepshanks was awarded honorary...
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1862
Educator Anne Sheepshanks
was awarded honorary membership in the Royal Society
.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
113
1904: The first scientific paper read by a woman...
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1904
The first scientific paper read by a woman for the Royal Society
was delivered by Hertha Ayrton
.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Jones, Claire. “Women’s History Month: Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923): scientist yet ’in every way a woman’”. Women’s History Network Blog, 23 Mar. 2010.
6 November 1919: Published observations of a solar eclipse,...
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6 November 1919
Published observations of a solar eclipse, made in Brazil and West Africa by two sets of British astronomers, confirmed Albert Einstein
's theory of relativity.
“Albert Einstein”. School of Mathematics and Statistics: University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Smith, Peter D. “’With fame I become more stupid’”. Guardian Weekly, 12–18 Sept. 2002, p. 16.
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1945: The Royal Society decided to open its membership...
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1945
The Royal Society
decided to open its membership to women, and admitted crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale
(a pacifist during World War II) as its first female Fellow.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
522
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
1991: The Royal Society appointed a woman officer...
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1991
The Royal Society
appointed a woman officer for the first time: Anne McLaren
, an embryologist, became its Foreign Secretary.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
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