Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
George Hickes
Standard Name: Hickes, George
Connections
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Occupation | Mary Astell | Material that she kept relating to the school included legal views of the canonical jurist Sir Edward Coke
on charitable institutions, a sermon by George Hickes
on endowing a school for poor girls, and information... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | The same year that her brother died, the death of her fellow-scholar George Hickes
removed yet one more anchor from EE
. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | |
Occupation | Elizabeth Elstob | She was a fine artist, drawing letters from manuscripts for typecasting and printing, creating her own illuminated letters, and producing a portrait of George Hickes
from which a print was taken. The print was judged... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | In 1708, the year of her Scudéry translation, George Hickes
had some of EE
's work printed in a scholarly text known as Conspectus brevis by William Wotton
, which condensed Hickes's own Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Elstob | Hickes
's selection of her work was of course a testimonial of his confidence in its quality. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Elstob | Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob
, mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford
and Cambridge Universities
. Female modesty, she says, prevents her... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Elstob | George Hickes
had strongly supported the forthcoming edition. He thought Elstob's work the most correct I ever saw or read,and that her edition will be of great advantage to the Church of England
against... |
Dedications | Elizabeth Elstob | The first of these works, dedicated to Caroline, Princess of Wales
, is sometimes called the first grammar of Anglo-Saxon; in fact Elstob was preceded by her friend and patron George Hickes
, who published... |
Education | Susanna Hopton | As an adult pursuing her interest in the highly masculine field of controversial theology, SH
repeatedly expressed regret that her education had been inadequate. She felt particularly her lack of skill in the ancient languages... |
Friends, Associates | Susanna Hopton | After 1689 SH
became a good friend of George Hickes
, antiquarian, sometime Dean of Worcester, and patron of Elizabeth Elstob
. Hickes, a member of a generation younger than Hopton, was a Non-juror (one... |
Wealth and Poverty | Susanna Hopton | She appointed both an executor, William Brome
, and a literary executor, Richard Lloyd
of Yarpole, a Nonjuror who, however, later conformed and took the oath of allegiance to the new monarchs. Lloyd saw to... |
Anthologization | Susanna Hopton | George Hickes believed this work to be by SH
. He also noted that a section added to it in 1688 in a form then titled The Sacrifice of a devout Christian was identified by... |
Publishing | Susanna Hopton | Hopton may have begun adapting Austin/Birchley purely for her own use. Her annotated copy of his text (now at Trinity College
, Cambridge; excerpts reproduced in the modern facsimile edition of her works) does... |
Textual Production | Susanna Hopton | In his preface to A Second Collection of Controversial LettersGeorge Hickes
wrote that he had in his possession, transcribed fair, and ready for the Press, copies of two works by SH
: a scribal... |
Timeline
1 April 1684: George Hickes (later a patron of Elizabeth...
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1 April 1684
George Hickes
(later a patron of Elizabeth Elstob
) preached at St Bridget's Church in London a sermon on almsgiving which made particular mention of charities to benefit women, including schools and colleges along the...
1707: George Hickes published, as Instructions...
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1707
George Hickes
published, as Instructions for the Education of a Daughter, a translation of Fénelon
's Traité de l'éducation des filles, 1687.
Texts
Hopton, Susanna. A Collection of Meditations and Devotions. Editor Hickes, George, D. Midwinter, 1717.
Hopton, Susanna. “A Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest”. A Second Collection of Controversial Letters, edited by George Hickes, Richard Sare, 1710.
Hopton, Susanna, and John Austin. Devotions In the Ancient Way of Offices. Editor Hickes, George, J. Jones, 1700.