Cavendish, Margaret. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Editors Bowerbank, Sylvia and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview.
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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... |
Occupation | Anna Atkins | AA
enjoyed unusual acceptance into traditionally masculine circles including learned societies, as a result of her father's involvement in (especially) the British Museum
and the Royal Society
. She became a pioneer in the field... |
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. 91 |
Other Life Event | Margaret Cavendish | Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
, on a rare visit to London with her husband
, was entertained by the Royal Society
as a distinguished visitor. Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury. 162 |
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. Moore, Judith. “The Duchess of Newcastle as Seventeenth-Century Writer and Twentieth-Century Feminist”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford. |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Anthologization | Maggie Gee | Her recent chapters in books include Beyond Ending in Bill Bryson
's Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, 2010 (whose other contributors include Margaret Atwood
and David Attenborough
), Living... |
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/. |
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... |