George Ballard

She got as far as renting a house for her school, but it seems that events then overtook her. Since her edition had failed, she had to refund money put up by subscribers, and once...

EE visited George Ballard at Oxford.

In 1709 (the same year that she published her version of Ælfric , An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory) EE began work on a project of female history. Of this...

About the same year MA seems to have earnestly solicited some Learned Ladies of her Acquaintance to contribute their assistance towards Compiling a Book of Natural Philosophy. Apparently she divided the subject up and...

Her correspondence with George Ballard shows them eagerly exchanging antiquities and artefacts, and information about the lives of early women writers.

Mary Barber and George Ballard mention an abridged (that is, short or elementary) history of England by CG ; it is not known to have reached print. Literary historian A. C. Elias notes that as...

Both Mary Pendarves (later Mary Delany) and John Wesley had read this remarkable work in manuscript the previous year. (Wesley had been reading her writing with enjoyment since at least April 1733.) Both Pendarves

SC had an important role in George Ballard 's pioneering work of women's history and women's biography. She introduced him to an even more important influence, Elizabeth Elstob ; she helped in his research; and...

According to George Ballard , MLC left in manuscript occasional poems, imitations and translations of Lucian (also translated by Lucy Hutchinson ), two tragedies, two operas, and a masque. They remained in her family...

Ralph Thoresby recorded on 22 January 1709 that EE had published some composures of her own apart from her Scudéry translation. She certainly worked with her brother—first as his assistant, then as his...

SC used letters to introduce John Wesley to the works of Mary Astell —just as, later, she used letters to raise the consciousness of George Ballard .

When George Ballard met Elstob years later she must have mentioned this unfinished project, for he was soon questioning her about Margaret Roper and Mary Astell .

SC 's friend and printer Richardson saw her project in a different and far more simple light than she did: as the administering by a good woman of an antidote to the Poison shed by...

On the monument to ALS in Acton church, her widower called her a Darlinge of the Nine.George Ballard mentioned her, but then until the late-twentieth century she was virtually forgotten. In recent...

Scholar Thomas Rawlins wrote to George Ballard (then working on his collection of women's lives) about the work of JS : he believed her longitude method to be feasible. He mentioned only obliquely that she...