Feminist Companion Archive.
George Ballard
Standard Name: Ballard, George
Connections
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Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Elstob | 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... |
Travel | Elizabeth Elstob | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | 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. Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, pp. 12-48. 25 |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | 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. Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain. Editor Perry, Ruth, Wayne State University Press. 426 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | Her correspondence with George Ballard
shows them eagerly exchanging antiquities and artefacts, and information about the lives of early women writers. |
Textual Production | Constantia Grierson | 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... |
Textual Production | Sarah Chapone | 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.) Glover, Susan Paterson, and Sarah Chapone. “Introduction”. The Hardships of the English Laws, Routledge, pp. 1-16. 11 |
Textual Production | Sarah Chapone | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | 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. Mary, Lady Chudleigh,. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, p. xvii - xxxvi. xxxv |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | Ralph Thoresby
recorded on 22 January 1709 that EE
had published some composures of her own Thoresby, Ralph. The Diary of Ralph Thoresby. Editor Hunter, Joseph, H. Colburn and R. Bentley. 2: 27 |
Textual Features | Sarah Chapone | 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
. |
Reception | Elizabeth Elstob | 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
. Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, pp. 12-48. 25 |
Reception | Sarah Chapone | 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... |
Reception | Anne, Lady Southwell | 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. Anne, Lady Southwell,. “Introduction”. The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book, edited by Jean Klene, Renaissance English Text Society, p. xi - xliii. xxii Anne, Lady Southwell,. The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book. Editor Klene, Jean, Renaissance English Text Society. 115 |
Reception | Jane Squire | 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... |
Timeline
23 November 1752: George Ballard dated his preface to Memoirs...
Women writers item
23 November 1752
George Ballard
dated his preface to Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain . . . (better known as Memoirs of Eminent Ladies); it was published that year.
July 1766: Biographium Foemineum. The Female Worthies;...
Building item
July 1766
Biographium Foemineum. The Female Worthies; or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, of all Ages and Nations was anonymously published.
1785: Dialogues Concerning the Ladies, a celebration...
Women writers item
1785
Dialogues Concerning the Ladies, a celebration of famous women, was anonymously published; it borrows from Ballard
's Memoirs of Eminent Ladies.
Texts
Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, 1985, pp. 12-48.
Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain. Printed by W, Jackson, for the author, 1752.
Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain. Editor Perry, Ruth, Wayne State University Press, 1985.
Elstob, Elizabeth, and George Ballard. “Notes”. Ballard MS 64.