Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | A wide spread of social institutions and systems of knowledge interests EF
: she looks at the force of gendered attitudes in theology, commerce, education, psychology and philosophy. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
Textual Production | Anne Lister | AL
wrote in her diary a statement echoing Rousseau
: I know my own heart, and understand my fellow man. From this her editor Helena Whitbread
titled the first printed volume of the diary. The... |
Textual Production | Frances Trollope | FT
published some short pieces, mostly sketches of her travels such as Midnight Passage of Mont du Chat in the November 1843 issue of New Monthly Magazine, and The Value of a Shawl the... |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Helme | Bibliographer Montague Summers
named EH
as translator of Jean-Claude Gorgy
's Sainte-Alme; 1790. The English version appeared anonymously as St Alma, A Novel, by April 1791, but it is now unlisted in standard... |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | Thirty years later she maintained that because of [c]hastity and modesty there had never been an autobiography by a woman (not one to match, for instance, Rousseau
's), but she often encouraged other women to... |
Textual Production | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | This book appeared, like her next, as by a Lady; the British Library
copy (filmed for Eighteenth Century Collections Online) has a manuscript note identifying the author on the printed testimony of Erasmus... |
Textual Production | Maria Edgeworth | ME
's overall pedagogic project (shared with her father) was a programmatic rejection Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, pp. 75-93. 82 |
Textual Features | Amelia Beauclerc | This novel is heavy-handedly moralistic. The heroine, Miriam Harcott, is the child of an atheistical philosopher (converted in the end by a good—not Methodist—clergyman) and a careless mother who causes the deaths of three of... |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney
(unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 37 |
Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | This epistolary novel charts the growth of love between two innocent, idealistic youngsters who barely understand their own feelings; the girl (named Olivia, like Owenson's sister
) is betrothed to someone else. Rousseau
's Nouvelle... |
Textual Features | Jane Welsh Carlyle | The conversational style of Jane's writing (with its casual tone, frequent underlinings and dashes) and her literary tastes are also illustrated in these early letters to Bess. Recomending Rousseau
's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Hamilton | Again EH
takes the radicals as her target. The phrase modern philosophers was in common use: the Gentleman's Magazine had turned it on Mary Wollstonecraft in reviewing her first major political work. Yet Hamilton makes... |
Timeline
1 November 1755: A major earthquake at Lisbon in Portugal...
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1 November 1755
A major earthquake at Lisbon in Portugal killed more than 10,000 people (estimates vary), provoking theological debate between Rousseau
and Voltaire
about the nature of evil.
January 1761: Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his epistolary...
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January 1761
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
published his epistolarynovelJulie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse; it was translated into English the same year by William Kenrick
.
By October 1762: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile, a novel of...
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By October 1762
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
's Émile, a novel of education published in the earlier part of this year in French, had its first English translation as Emilius and Sophia.
1764: Mademoiselle d'Espinassy published Essai...
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1764
Mademoiselle d'Espinassy
published Essaisur l'éducation des demoiselles, a considered response to Rousseau
's Emile.
1774: Louise d'Epinay, former friend and patron...
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1774
Louise d'Epinay
, former friend and patron of Rousseau
, published Conversations d'Emilie, a book on education for girls designed to counter the message of his Emile.
1785: Botanist Thomas Martyn translated into English...
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1785
Botanist Thomas Martyn
translated into English a work of Rousseau
's of 1771-3 as Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to a Lady: it had eight editions in the next thirty years.
By July 1788: The publication of a Beauties of Rousseau...
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By July 1788
The publication of a Beauties of Rousseau marked his popularity in England.
Between 25 and 27 August 1789: In Paris, the National Assembly adopted the...
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Between 25 and 27 August 1789
By August 1794: Rousseau's autobiographical Confessions appeared...
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By August 1794
9 July 1798: George Canning, writing in the Anti-Jacobin,...
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9 July 1798
George Canning
, writing in the Anti-Jacobin, lambasted sensibility as a literary mode stemming from France, from Rousseau
, and from diseased fancy, effeminacy, and self-obsession.
1801: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi suggested, in...
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1801
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
suggested, in Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt, that girls' education is even more vital than boys', since girls will one day educate children of their own.
Texts
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Editorial Materials”. Rousseau Religious Writings, edited by Ronald Grimsley, Clarendon Press, 1970.