Joseph Priestley

Standard Name: Priestley, Joseph

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Wealth and Poverty Marie Belloc Lowndes
By August 1944 MBL had tenants in her London house, to protect it against burglary and bring in some rent. Since she employed no servant there, they got their own breakfast and ate their other...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Moody
Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM addresses Joseph Priestley on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet on...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's niece wrote of her (with an echo of Pope on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xxviii
She herself, however, said it was Joseph Priestley
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
To the same year, probably, belong An Address to the Deity (a devotional poem written in response to Joseph Priestley 's preaching) and To Mrs. P[riestley], with some Drawings of Birds and Insects.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Anna Letitia Barbauld : Selected Poetry and Prose. Editors McCarthy, William and Elizabeth Kraft, Broadview.
41,44
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
For this her great support and encouragement was her brother (as he, rather than her husband , continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
She also kept up her output of political poetry. Only a few years after this Hannah More 's Bishop Bonner's Ghost (a ballad extolling, through irony, the modern, enlightened Church of England ) drew from...
Textual Features Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body.
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications.
49-50
She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...
Textual Features Harriet Martineau
After this came Cinnamon and Pearls, which treats imperialist exploitation in Ceylon,
Logan, Deborah Anna, and Harriet Martineau. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Illustrations of Political Economy, Broadview, p. various pages.
384
A Tale of the Tyne on press gangs, and Briery Creek.The hero of the last of these was a...
Textual Features Ann Radcliffe
Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
67
AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...
Residence Ann Gomersall
At some time after her marriage AG left London and settled in the industrial town of Leeds, far from her origins. Among manufacturing towns it had a remarkably lively cultural life. Joseph Priestley had...
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
Anna Aikin (later ALB ) wrote On Mrs P— 's Leaving Warrington, one of her earliest important surviving poems, which she threw into the carriage that was to carry the Priestleys away to Joseph
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
A local newspaper, the Norwich Iris, published a letter from ALB in defence of Joseph Priestley .
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
369
Publishing Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP 's contributions to other periodicals include her article Everybody's Baby which appeared in Saint Pauls magazine in 1871.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
III: 377
In 1894 she published articles on her great-grandfather Joseph Priestley , on George Eliot
politics Harriet Martineau
HM 's biographer R. K. Webb argues that her intellectual and political positions flowed quite logically from her family's business and religious interests: from a kind of radicalism typical of the industrial north. This gave...
politics Amelia Opie
She took the trials so seriously that she thought of emigrating with her father (as Joseph Priestley had already done) if they went against the defendants.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books.
149

Timeline

1749: David Hartley published Observations on Man,...

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1749

David Hartley published Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duties, and his Expectations, which established a materialist theory of the human mind.

1761: Joseph Priestley published The Rudiments...

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1761

Joseph Priestley published The Rudiments of English Grammar; adapted to the use of schools. With observations on style.

1765: Joseph Priestley published his Chart of Biography,...

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1765

Joseph Priestley published his Chart of Biography, a diagram measuring two by three feet, showing the overlapping time-spans of the lives of historical figures.

1766 or 1767: Joseph Priestley first isolated nitrous oxide...

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1766 or 1767

Joseph Priestley first isolated nitrous oxide or nitrous air.

1769: Joseph Priestley began publishing The Theological...

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1769

Joseph Priestley began publishing The Theological Repository, an influential Dissenting journal.

1770: The Lichfield Circle began to develop at...

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1770

The Lichfield Circle began to develop at Lichfield in Staffordshire; the group advocated reform of women's education away from time-filling accomplishments such as japanning and toward intellectual learning.

February 1774: In the preface (dated February 1774) to the...

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February 1774

In the preface (dated February 1774) to the first volume of his Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, Joseph Priestley wrote that the rapid progress of scientific knowledge would I doubt not...

1 August 1774: After some years experimenting with nitrous...

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1 August 1774

After some years experimenting with nitrous oxide, Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen (which he called dephlogisticated air).

2 March 1790: Charles James Fox proposed in the House of...

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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).

June 1791: Joseph Priestley founded a Constitutional...

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June 1791

Joseph Priestley founded a Constitutional Society in Birmingham.

14-17 July 1791: The Priestley riots in Birmingham, beginning...

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14-17 July 1791

The Priestley riots in Birmingham, beginning with offence taken over a Bastille Day dinner, caused much destruction and disturbance.

8 April 1794: Joseph Priestley emigrated to the USA to...

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8 April 1794

Joseph Priestley emigrated to the USA to escape persecution for his political and religious opinions.

1796: Joseph Priestley published at Philadelphia...

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1796

Joseph Priestley published at PhiladelphiaUnitarianism Explained and Defended, in a Discourse Delivered in the Church of the Universalists, at Philadelphia.

1802: Thomas Wedgwood (of the pottery family) and...

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1802

Thomas Wedgwood (of the pottery family) and Humphry Davy experimented with capturing images using silver nitrate; they almost invented photography.

Texts

Priestley, Joseph. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air. Thomas Pearson, 1790.