Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times.
1829, iv
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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 |
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 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Strickland | Her father, Thomas Strickland
, was a docks manager near Rotherhithe, which was then a distinct village, but became part of the London Docks complex. He owned property in East London. He had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strickland | Her father, Thomas Strickland
, owned some property while he was employed as a docks manager near Rotherhithe. He thought of himself as an intellectual, and took pride in the fact that some books... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Tollet | Sir Isaac Newton
admired ET
's earliest essays (that is, attempts at writing). Thomas Parnell
praised her Apollo and Daphne in a poem which he contributed to Steele
's Poetical Miscellanies, 1714 (which actually... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Tollet | His friendship with Sir Isaac Newton
(a neighbour at the Tower) was shared by his daughter. There may also, possibly, have been personal acquaintance behind her praise of the poems of William Congreve
and Alexander Pope |
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