Thomas Percy

Early in the new century JW vigorously defended her activities as an author against the criticism that her support of female domesticity accorded ill with her own high visibility in the public sphere. The grounds...

Percy vigorously supported her in the conservative British Critic.

According to Thomas Percy , AW was about twenty when her sight began to be affected by cataracts, though at this date she was still able to read and to sew. She became totally blind...

AW corresponded with Ann Percy , who, with her husband, the clergyman and ballad-collector Thomas Percy , was a good friend. She visited their home in 1764. Other friends, perhaps her closest, were single women...