Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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... |
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... |
Anthologization | Susanna Hopton | George Hickes
included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH
to Henry Turberville
on choosing the Anglican
over... |
Textual Production | Susanna Hopton | SH
's revised or reformed version of John Austin
's popular Roman CatholicDevotions in the Ancient Way of Offices, 1668, was published through George Hickes
. Austin concealed himself under the name of William Birchley. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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.
Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
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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, 1613 - 1669 Austin. Devotions In the Ancient Way of Offices. Editor Hickes, George, J. Jones, 1700.