Mandeville, Bernard. “Introduction”. The Fable of the Bees, edited by Phillip Harth, Penguin Classics, Penguin, 1989, pp. 7 - 50.
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University of Leiden
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Henry Fielding | HF
attended Eton
, and four years after leaving school enrolled for a while at the University of Leiden
. After the premature end of his career as a theatre manager he enrolled as a... |
| Education | Oliver Goldsmith | After various local schools he attended Trinity College, Dublin
, as a sizar: a poor student who financed his course by acting as a servant to other students. He was often in trouble with the... |
| Education | Bernard Mandeville | He studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Leiden
, earning the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1691. |
| Textual Production | Ann Fisher | A few of AF
's letters have survived and reached print. (Those to John Cunningham
are among his published correspondence.) Some are being edited by Maria E. Rodriguez-Gil
for a database of letters in progress... |
| Travel | Elizabeth Burnet | In 1707 EB
travelled in Europe with three stepchildren, one of her objects being to settle the eldest and youngest of her stepsons to spend a year at the University of Leyden
. As well... |
Timeline
1575
The University of Leiden
was founded as a centre of Protestant learning (as were a number of new Oxford
and Cambridge
colleges at about this time, with the same religio-political agenda).