qtd. in
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45. 30
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Charlotte Nooth | The nobility of the skin means a class system based on race as others are based on birth or money. Nooth's translation has no preliminary pages, no address by translator to reader. Grégoire cites his... |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | The tone of the novel is serious and didactic. Its claim to advocacy and realism is absolute: Let no one suppose we are going to write fiction, or to conjure up phantoms of a heated... |
| Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Douglas | She printed a whole series of appeals to the High Court of Parliament
, and a whole series of welcomes and warnings about the imminent Second Coming of Christ. Having published in 1645 a tract... |
| Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Douglas | In this she claimed for herself the Papal power to excommunicate, and proposed a new day called Moonday to replace Sunday (the sabbath), which Parliament
proposed to abolish. |
| Textual Features | Muriel Box | Details of the changed world include the telecommunication by screen image, extinction of smoking, and a three-day weekend and four-day work week. Houses are made of toughened glass and cars are solar-charged, self-renewing, and circular... |
| Textual Features | May Laffan | The protagonist, John O'Rooney Hogan, is the nephew of a bishop who aims at social climbing. He gains a veneer of Protestantism by attending Trinity College, Dublin
, and at the urging of the duplicitous... |
| Textual Features | Constance Lytton | No intelligent woman, she wrote, could spend time in Holloway Prison
without realising that the wreckage of lives seen there resulted not from human frailty only but also from a state of law and public... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Chapone | This 70-page pamphlet, addressed to Parliament
, exhibits detailed knowledge of the law and of recent cases involving heiress marriage, adultery, etc. SC
finds the English law harsher to women than either ancient Roman or... |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Forman | Probus (probably CF
) wrote in the Public Advertiser that a time was coming that will enable the people to resume the power delegated to the indolent, corrupt, and venal Parliament
. |
| Textual Features | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Written after the death of her husband, the poems in the collection deal with death, grief, and consolation as well as a number of feminist issues. Her poem Outlawed for example, written in response to... |
| Textual Production | Katherine Chidley | KC
may have been one of the Leveller
women who petitioned Parliament
for the release of John Lilburne
; she may also have been the chief writer of the petition. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 17 , No. 2, 1998, pp. 213-33. 225 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy White | Following Priscilla Cotton
but preceding Margaret Fell
, DW
defended women's preaching in A Call from God Out of Egypt, by His Son Christ the Light of Life, which is partly in verse (a... |
| Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | On the day that John Stuart Mill
presented to Parliament
the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC
placed a double-column letter in the high Tory
paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed... |
| Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's now intensified campaign on domestic violence found fullest expression in her Contemporary Review essay Wife-Torture in England; it crucially shaped the Matrimonial Causes Act passed by Parliament
in May. Cobbe, Frances Power. “Wife-Torture in England”. Contemporary Review, Vol. 32 , 1878, pp. 55-87. prelims Hammerton, A. James. Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life. Routledge, 1992. 63-4 Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004. 260-1 |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
dated her Samsons Legacie; it is now seen as a unity with her appeal to Parliament
dated 3 January 1642. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995. 85ff |
Timeline
1 June 1711: From this day, by Act of Parliament, postal...
Writing climate item
1 June 1711
From this day, by Act of Parliament
, postal services were established and regulated between London, Edinburgh, Dublin, New York, and the West Indies.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
22: 178
1716: Parliament passed the Septennial Act, which...
National or international item
1716
Parliament
passed the Septennial Act, which set the maximum duration of a British government at seven years before an election had to be called (more than twice the previous three-year term).
Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson: A Critical Edition of the Major Works. Editor Greene, Donald, Oxford University Press, 1984.
794n14
1720: The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence...
National or international item
1720
The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence of the Dublinparliament
on the English one at Westminster.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197. 72
1728: An Act of Parliament laid down acceptable...
Building item
1728
An Act of Parliament
laid down acceptable levels of wages: a live-in woman servant in her twenties would receive two pounds ten shillings annually, as against her male counterpart's three pounds ten shillings.
Korshin, Paul J. “Johnson’s Life Experience with Poverty”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 3-20. 6
3 May 1730: Negroes (for the slave trade) were reported...
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3 May 1730
Negroes (for the slave trade) were reported scarce in coastal districts near Aunamabo in Africa, owing to a bloody war with their inland neighbours.
The Grub-Street Journal. James Roberts.
17 September 1730
Dabydeen, David. Hogarth’s Blacks: Images of Blacks in Eighteenth Century English Art. University of Georgia Press, 1987.
121
1735: The Conjuration and Witchcraft Act, repealing...
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1735
The Conjuration and Witchcraft Act, repealing previous British acts against witchcraft and replacing them with more moderate treatment, made its way through Parliament
. It received royal assent on 24 March 1736.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.
1 May 1746: A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament...
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1 May 1746
A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament
in 1745 declared that from this date any marriage of a Protestant solemnised by a Catholic priest (whether to a Catholic or Protestant) was null and void.
“Statutes in Chronological Order, 3: The Reigns of King George I and II”. University of Minnesota Law School: Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery, commonly known as the Penal Laws.
1753: Parliament brought in a bill for implementing...
National or international item
1753
Parliament
brought in a bill for implementing the first national census: it was rejected by the House of Lords
as an infringement on personal liberty.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
87
From 30 July 1760: Following a petition to parliament, seven...
Building item
From 30 July 1760
Following a petition to parliament
, seven narrow medieval gates leading into the City of London (Ludgate, Aldgate, etc.) were demolished.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
30 (1760): 390, 407, 440, 591
30 March 1764: Parliament passed the American Duties Act...
National or international item
30 March 1764
Parliament
passed the American Duties Act (usually called either the Sugar Act or the Revenue Act): an effort to collect the tax due on molasses.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
44-50
After June 1773: Over protest from the House of Lords, the...
National or international item
After June 1773
Over protest from the House of Lords
, the India Regulating Act enacted the first direct British government intervention in the administration of India.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
9
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
75
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
354
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
43 (1773): 299
1774: John Wilkes called on parliament to introduce...
Building item
1774
John Wilkes
called on parliament
to introduce universal manhood suffrage.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
108
1 January 1776: The first American flag was raised, at Cambridge,...
National or international item
1 January 1776
The first American flag was raised, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
96
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
298
9 March 1778: The British Parliament approved proposals...
National or international item
9 March 1778
The British Parliament
approved proposals from Lord North
, the Prime Minister, for conciliation with the United States.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
111
30 December 1779: Christopher Wyvill, a conservative supporter...
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30 December 1779
Christopher Wyvill
, a conservative supporter of parliamentary reform fuelled by a sense of the interests of the propertied gentry, held a meeting of about six hundred men at York assembly rooms, which resolved to...
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