Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016.
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|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Deborah Norris Logan | George was grandson of James Logan
, a wealthy Philadelphian fur trader, scientist and bibliophile. In England on a visit at the time of an eclipse of the sun on 22 May 1724, James wrote... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Bathsua Makin | Her father, Henry Reginald
, was a schoolmaster in the parish of St Mary Axe, London, an author, and a friend of the poet Michael Drayton
. He was reasonably prosperous, intellectually active, and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Marryat | Captain Frederick Marryat
, FM
's father, was a distinguished naval officer renowned for conspicuous gallantry, a Fellow of the Royal Society
and member of the Légion d'Honneur
, a spectacular success as a novelist... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary More | Her son, Richard Waller
, was an artist, poet, and natural philosopher or scientist. He served as Secretary to the Royal Society
from 1687 to 1709, and edited posthumous works by Robert Hooke
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stewart | While she was successfully pursuing her writing, he was building up the University of Edinburgh
's Earth Science department, tripling its size. Among his many accomplishments and honours, he was elected a Fellow of the... |
| Anthologization | Maggie Gee | Her recent chapters in books include Beyond Ending in Bill Bryson
's Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, 2010 (whose other contributors include Margaret Atwood
and David Attenborough
), Living... |
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