Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Marcet | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Tollet | On the Death of Sir Isaac Newton dwells on the honorific funeral which Tollet, as a woman, would not have attended. On the analogy of Cicero
's restoration of the tomb of Archimedes
, she... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | EC
, at not yet twenty-one, published another translation: Sir Isaac Newton
's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of the Ladies, from an Italian popularisation by Francesco Algarotti
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 52 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | The work she translated was Algarotti
's Italian version of Newton
's Optics. The project of translating back from the Italian popularisation of this famous work was recommended to her by Thomas Birch
.... |
Textual Production | Agnes Mary Clerke | While many of her articles were printed in the Edinburgh Review, she also contributed to a range of other periodicals. And while she focused her writings primarily on astronomy, she by no means neglected... |
Textual Production | Anne Conway | |
Textual Features | Ann Jellicoe | The fanciful science-fiction drama presents a world ruled by Mother, who leads the older women of the world to banish men from society and from history. Schoolgirls are made to repeat the chorus, Shakespeare |
Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | This novel is largely autobiographical, and contains an unsympathetic portrait of the author's mother, radical feminist Anna Wheeler
, in the character of Aunt Marley. The school that Rosina attended is also portrayed as a... |
Textual Features | George Bernard Shaw | In it, Charles II
, Nell Gwyn
, Isaac Newton
, and George Fox
, among others, debate religious, scientific, and artistic issues. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Smith | She then recorded how she look[ed] back on my past life with shame and confusion, when I recollect the many advantages I have had, and the bad use I have made of them. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 85 |
Textual Features | Mary Whateley Darwall | |
Textual Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829, iv |
Publishing | Jane Barker | The material in the volume was later revised as the third part of the Magdalen Manuscript. The publisher advertised the volume in December 1687, using JB
's name. This is the only instance of his... |
Occupation | Caroline Herschel | CH
first used in her sweeping of the night sky for nebulae and comets a more powerful, Newtonian telescope. Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow. 138-9 |
Occupation | Mary Somerville | She was now free to pursue her mathematical studies with increased intensity. She tackled plane and spherical trigonometry and conic sections, read Newton
's Principia, and began to explore higher mathematics and physical astronomy... |
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