Humfrey Wanley

Standard Name: Wanley, Humfrey

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Elizabeth Elstob
Left alone in the world and without financial support, Elstob had at first the idea of opening a large, ambitious school in Chelsea, then still outside London.
Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, 1985, pp. 12-48.
23
(Much later in her life she...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Elstob
Most important among EE 's scholarly circle were George Hickes and her brother . The group of scholars known as the Oxford Saxonists, to their credit, seems to have welcomed her on terms of equality...

Timeline

3 November 1703: John Tipper, a schoolmaster of Coventry,...

Building item

3 November 1703

John Tipper , a schoolmaster of Coventry, wrote to Humfrey Wanley about his projected Ladies' Diary, or The Woman's Almanack.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
45-52
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
25
Ellis, Sir Henry, editor. Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Camden Society, 1843.
304-14
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
144
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
166

Texts

Wanley, Humfrey. The Diary of Humfrey Wanley, 1715-1726. Editors Wright, Cyril Ernest and Ruth C. Wright, Bibliographical Society, 1966, 2 vols.