Moore, Judith. “The Duchess of Newcastle as Seventeenth-Century Writer and Twentieth-Century Feminist”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford.
Royal Society
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | Elizabeth Tollet | During Elizabeth's mother's lifetime the Tollet family lived at York Buildings, near Whitehall Palace, London, where George Tollet also probably had his office. The buildings were a centre of intellectual life: a select group... |
| Textual Features | Eva Figes | A strangely static book, this novel is in form a stream of reminiscence by an aged female protagonist, who mixes past and present, without consecutive narrative. (This is actually a slightly more conventional version than... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Cavendish | This has only a single prefatory piece. Cavendish here makes use of empirical science: the Royal Society
's experiments with blood transfusion, recently reported. |
| Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | CH
's An Account of a New Comet (her recent discovery) was read for her at a meeting of the Royal Society
. The account was printed by John Nichols
as a pamphlet the following year. University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/. |
| Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | The Royal Society
issued, with her name, CH
's Catalogue of Stars, an updating and radical expansion of Flamsteed
's canonical but by now inadequate catalogue of fixed stars (published in 1725). English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Travel | Marie Stopes | Her academic career took her almost around the world. First she went to Japan for two years, from 1907, to be attached to the University of Tokyo
on a research grant from the Royal Society |
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.