Montgomery, Benilde. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Slaves in Algiers</span>: Susanna Rowson’s First American Play”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Joseph Priestley
Standard Name: Priestley, Joseph
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
Literary responses | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Early, informal response centred on the play's daring political message, which made SHR
famous or notorious. People spoke of the play as Americans in Algiers or Slaves Released from Algiers. |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,... |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
's great-grandfather, her mother's grandfather, was the famous Radical and Unitarian scientist Joseph Priestley
, sometimes referred to as the father of modern chemistry. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 36 Markel, Michael H. Hilaire Belloc. Twayne. 1 |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | She formed a bond, too, with Madame Belloc's old friend Adelaide de Montgolfier
, daughter of the balloon inventor Etienne de Montgolfier
, who told her that her father's invention had been inspired by Joseph Priestley |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Just at the point when she become a published author, HM
's questioning of her Unitarian faith was troubled by a desire to reconcile herself to God's power and benevolence. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 1: 108 |
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 |
Cultural formation | Catharine Macaulay | |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
owned and took great care of a portrait of her great-grandfather Joseph Priestley
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. 178 |
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
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.