Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Redford, BruceEditor , Princeton University Press, 1994.
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death | Anna Williams | AW
died at 8 Bolt Court near Fleet Street in London of mere inanition, Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Redford, BruceEditor , Princeton University Press, 1994. 4: 198 Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Redford, BruceEditor , Princeton University Press, 1994. 4: 187 Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985. 98-9 |
death | Thomas Otway | Samuel Johnson
professed unwillingness to believe the story to which he gave currency, that Otway was reduced to begging for food, and choked to death on a roll bought with a charitable gift. Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. Hill, George BirkbeckEditor , Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1905. 1: 247 |
Dedications | Charlotte Lennox | The full title was Memoirs for the History of Madame de Maintenon and of the last age; Lennox published it as the author of The Female Quixote. The price was fifteen shillings; the... |
Dedications | Charlotte Lennox | The final volume came out on 22 February 1754. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, No. 4, pp. 317 - 44. 326 |
Dedications | Charlotte Lennox | A second edition followed on 19 March 1761. It featured the first appearance of Lennox's name on a title-page, and a dedication (supplied by Johnson
; the first edition had none) to the Duchess of Newcastle |
Education | Evelyn Sharp | ES
received her first education at home, from her sisters Ethel, Bertha, and Mabel (the eldest), who taught the younger ones Bible stories on Sundays. At the same time she imbibed from her brothers the... |
Education | Harriette Wilson | While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb
set out to get her reading Milton
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, theRambler, Virgil |
Education | Mary Somerville | Flipping casually through a ladies' fashion magazine when she was about fourteen years old, Mary had her curiosity caught by an algebraic expression in a puzzle. She was told that the variables were Algebra... |
Education | Lydia Maria Child | At fifteen she read Paradise Lost (with her brother's encouragement) and was delighted with its grandeur and sublimity, but was bold enough to criticise Milton
for assert[ing] the superiority of his own sex in rather... |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 124 |
Education | Maria Callcott | Maria Dundas, aged seven (later MC
), began attending a school which occupied the Manor House at Draycot in Berkshire, run by the Miss Brights, who prided themselves on having been friends of Samuel Johnson
. Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937. 19, 41 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Education | Elizabeth Carter | She progressed on her own later to other languages such as German, Portuguese and Arabic, and to studies with Thomas Wright
which included astronomy, mathematics, and ancient civilization and culture. Much has been made of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Milton | Milton's three successive marriages, and his attitudes to women and to gender, have been a constant debating point for critics, biographers, and writers of fiction. Johnson
wrote that the first wife left him in disgust... |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Milton | The early stages of this marriage were clearly fraught with difficulty. After only a few weeks, Milton's wife went home to Forest Hill, and did not return for probably as long as three years. Her... |