Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
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South Sea Company
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Lamb | From the age of fourteen Charles Lamb worked as a clerk, first in a merchant's counting-house, then for the South Sea Company
and finally, for thirty-three years from April 1792 when he was seventeen, for... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | Catharine's grandfather Jacob Sawbridge was a director of the notorious South Sea Company
. Though he probably saved the greater part of his assets when the crash came, his good name was damaged. |
| Textual Features | Elinor James | EJ
's tracts or broadsides (which word simply means a single-sheet publication) are not literature as usually defined. In some ways they are more like ephemera: notices, advertisements, or proclamations. Rather than titles they have... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | Her full title is A Woman's Case: in an Epistle to Charles Joye
, Esq; Deputy-Governor of the South-Sea. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. C97 |
| Textual Production | Elinor James | EJ
published Gentlemen of the South Sea Company, a broadside in favour of trade with France. The South Sea Company
had begun trading four years previously. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
was caught up in the frenzy of the South Sea Bubble (trading in stocks was one of the few areas of life that made no distinction between women and men). While her husband publicly... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Mary Lamb | Their father lost his primary job just as he was becoming too infirm (and disabled in one hand) to work as a butler in the Inner Temple. Their grandmother Mary Field
died four days after... |
Timeline
1 August 1711: The South Sea Company, formed on 2 May, officially...
National or international item
1 August 1711
The South Sea Company
, formed on 2 May, officially began trading.
August 1720: South Sea shares reached £1,000, having stood...
National or international item
August 1720
South Sea shares reached £1,000, having stood at £100 in January.
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