Glover, Susan Paterson, and Sarah Chapone. “Introduction”. The Hardships of the English Laws, Routledge, 2018, pp. 1 - 16.
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Thomas Rawlins
Standard Name: Rawlins, Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Jane Squire | Whatever education JS
received initially, she continued it for herself. She considered that as a Christian to Study the Law of God Day and Night . . . is my proper Business; Philosophy [that is... |
| Literary responses | Jane Squire | So far as is known, none of JS
's writing or actions made any impression on the Longitude Commission
ers. The longitude papers (at the Royal Greenwich Observatory
, now located in Cambridge) contain... |
| Reception | Sarah Chapone | In 1743 the scholar Thomas Rawlins
mentioned The Hardships of the English Laws: he was finding it hard to get hold of a copy in London. |
| Reception | Jane Squire | 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... |
| Textual Production | Jane Squire | Thomas Rawlins
mentioned another work by JS
which does not survive. It is a great Loss to Navigators yt [sic] she has not lived to finish her Catalogue of Stars, describing their Longitude Latitude... |
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