EGF
had met novelist Laurence Sterne
and botanist-physician John Fothergill
in London. Among her large circle of friends at home, other writers were prominent. She knew the poet Nathaniel Evans
and the physician and educator...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jessie Fothergill
On the Wensleydale-Quaker side of the family, JF
could claim substantial connections, including the famous eighteenth-century botanist, physician, and writer Dr John Fothergill
, and his brother, the eminent Quaker preacher Samuel Fothergill
.
ML
's mother, Elizabeth (Carleton) Shakleton or Shackleton
, was born in Dublin. She had some pleasure in clothes, a musical ear, skill at singing, and an uncommon taste for drawing, all of which she...