Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press, 1998.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Bathsua Makin | Henry Reginald died on 4 April 1635, having become mentally ill and been sent to Bedlam
or Bethlehem Hospital. Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press, 1998. 52 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In London, she met theCarlyles
and John Gibson Lockhart
's daughter Charlotte
. She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake
. She called on Agnes Strickland
and Maria Edgeworth
. Lord Shaftesbury |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | D'Eon, whom Macaulay respected, was sometimes linked with her as a fellow learned lady by those who thought him to be female. On June 6, 1771 the Public Advertiser carried a spoof report that CM |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Nihell | Tobias Smollett
, writing for the Critical in March 1760, took EN
's book as an attack on the obstetrician William Smellie
(though Nihell specifically disavows reference to individuals). His notice is a defence of... |
politics | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
was confined: first in Bedlam (in a special room built for her comfort), then from April 1638 in the Tower of London
. Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992. 92-7 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Georgiana Craik | My Sister's Husband relates how a woman discovers her brother-in-law to be as mad as any man in Bedlam. Craik, Georgiana. “My Sister’s Husband”. Dublin University Magazine, Vol. 50 , Aug. 1857, pp. 217-25. 225 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Eleanor Douglas | The text complains bitterly of the author's sufferings in Bedlam, and explains her action at Lichfield Cathedral as analogous to the destruction by Moses of the golden calf, as related in the Old Testament... |
Travel | Elizabeth Teft | |
Travel | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
took to spending her summers in the countryside outside Leicester, living solely on potatoes in a shepherd's cottage with a view to experiencing the lifestyle of subsistence labourers in Ireland. Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 41-67. 53 |
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