O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Richard Price
Standard Name: Price, Richard
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | Newington Green was a fortunate place for MW
to have settled: it was a centre of intellectual Dissent. There she met the radical minister Richard Price
, the poet Samuel Rogers
, and the teacher... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | The writings moved by Birch were what prompted admirers to press for an edition. Literary historian Melanie Bigold
has called them her most significant contribution to philsophical debate in the period.Richard Price
drew attention... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | She was, however, more than any other woman writer, an important influence on the Bluestockings and their thinking about morality, religion, and gender. |
| Textual Features | Mary Wollstonecraft | Wollstonecraft had Burke in her sights for his Sublime and Beautiful as well as his views on revolutionary France and his personal attack on her friend Richard Price
(who had welcomed the revolution from the... |
Timeline
1771
Political thinker Richard Price
(who was later a Unitarian
) published probably the best-known attack on enclosures, Observations on Reversionary Payments, which went through six editions.
30 April 1776
John Wilkes
, in a plan for parliamentary reform, put forward a proposal for universal male suffrage; Richard Price
had recently, in Observations on Civil Liberty, also proposed abolishing the House of Lords
.
1781
Richard Price
's attack on enclosure was countered by John Howlett
.
4 November 1789
Richard Price
delivered a sermon at the Old Jewry Meeting House, London, to mark the anniversary of the Revolution of 1688 and celebrate the revolutionary spirit of France.
2 March 1790
Charles James Fox
proposed in the House of Commons
the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters
). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four years).
14 July 1790
Richard Price
, speaking at a Bastille Day tavern dinner, praised the French revolutionary authorities for intending to renounce war as an instrument of policy, and looked forward to a United States of the World.
1 November 1790
Edmund Burke
published his Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in certain Societies in London relative to that event.
Late 1790
William Holland
published a print of Burke
running the gauntlet of enemies with whips: women as well as men.
July 2010
BPP University College of Professional Studies
was awarded the status of a university or degree-granting body: only the second private or for-profit organization of this kind in the UK.
Hotson, Howard. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, No. 11, p. 19.
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