Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Six Life Studies of Famous Women. Griffith and Farran.
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Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She said she had made notes towards this project, but thought the task too big for her (and that it would have had to be begun sooner). Burke had already attracted two indignant answers: Wollstonecraft |
Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Joseph Johnson
did not advertise this work, yet an edition was printed as far away as Dundee. It was popularly priced at sixpence, six months before Hannah More
's Village Politics and nearly three... |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | Her niece Matilda Betham-Edwards
recorded that at fourteen she sat down to answer and refute Tom Paine
's political arguments. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Six Life Studies of Famous Women. Griffith and Farran. 234 |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | SB
composed a song, Wey, Ned, Man! (to the tune of Ranting, roaring Willie), which features two countrymen debating the pros and cons of Tom Paine
's Rights of Man. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 93 |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | To the same period of 1791 or a little later belongs Wey, Ned, Man!, one of SB
's best-remembered Cumberland ballads, in which, to a jaunty traditional tune, two farmers discuss Tom Paine
's... |
Dedications | Margaret Croker | MC
prefaced it with a verse dedication to Thomas, Lord Erskine
(an eminent lawyer who had defended Thomas Paine
for publishing the Rights of Man). She praises him for charity and patriotism. A second... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Dacre | John King
, father of CD
and Sophia King
, dated a letter to Tom Paine
on political developments in France. King, John, and Thomas Paine. Mr King’s Speech at Egham. Printed by C. Boult for J. Debrett . 10-16 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Dacre | |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | At Easter 1651, in Hells Destruction, LED
unleashed a flood of biblical rhetoric against Thomas Paine
the printer, who had had her imprisoned for debt. Paine the printer is not to be confused with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 |
politics | Hannah Griffitts | HG
was an American patriot who was nonetheless not happy about the war of independence; she described herself as a Whig. It is clear from her poetry that her Quaker pacifist beliefs were strongly felt... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The work is headed with a motto: Feeling, not genius, prompts the lay, Feminist Companion Archive. |
Leisure and Society | Anna Margaretta Larpent | In a typical day, AML
read Tom Paine
to herself, and Sarah Trimmer
and some Latin with her sons. She went to see the kangaroo, the Polygraphic Exhibition, and Thomas Holcroft
's Road to Ruin. Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux. 56 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | Will Chip (with the support of Jack Anvil the blacksmith) admonishes Tom Hod, the mason, who has become discontented on reading Tom Paine
. The non-revolutionary characters invoke the subordination of women (and of children... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | Several of the Cheap Repository Tracts specifically answer texts by Voltaire
or Paine
. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 147 |