Thoresby, Ralph. The Diary of Ralph Thoresby. Editor Hunter, Joseph, H. Colburn and R. Bentley.
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George Ballard
Standard Name: Ballard, George
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | By this time, however, she was acquiring a circle of patrons. She had met Sarah Chapone
, parson's wife and proto-feminist, who this same year published her anonymous, hard-hitting The Hardships of the English Laws... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | Ralph Thoresby
recorded on 22 January 1709 that EE
had published some composures of her own |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Other grand-daughters subscribed to George Ballard
's Memoirs of Eminent Ladies and supplied family manuscripts to aid his research. Mary, Lady Chudleigh,. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, p. xvii - xxxvi. xxi n10 |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Damaris Masham | George Ballard
, in compiling his Memoirs of Eminent Ladies, praised the Observations which the Virtuous and excellently knowing LadyDM
made in this book on the Tyrannick Insolence, Oppressive and Monopilizing Tempers of... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Roper | MR
's intellectual achievements, together with her father's charisma and the touching story of her heroism and family devotion, made her for centuries a benchmark for commentators on the status of women. George Ballard
set... |
| 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... |
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