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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...