Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et. al., 1781, 4 vols., http://SpCol PR 553 J67 1781.
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Characters | Elizabeth Meeke | This novel opens on the low-bred Wheeler family (ex-servants in charge of a Westminster School
boarding-house), and on a scene of noise, quarrelling, and confusion. The thoroughly nasty twenty-year-old John Wheeler comes home to seek... |
Education | Abraham Cowley | He was educated at Westminster School
and Trinity College, Cambridge
. He later studied at Oxford University
for a degree in medicine. Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et. al., 1781, 4 vols., http://SpCol PR 553 J67 1781. 1: 3-6,11 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | John Dryden | JD
attended Westminster School
, whose headmaster at this date was the legendary Richard Busby
. When, years later, Dryden published a translation of the third satire of the Latin poet Persius
, he reminisced... |
Education | John Locke | He attended Westminster School
and Christ Church, Oxford
. His studies branched out in various directions from the conventional curriculum, notably into natural philosophy or what is now called the sciences. |
Occupation | Leah Sumbel | Mary Wells (later LS
) played for her own benefit in Small Talk; or The Westminster
Boy, a farce by her lover Edward Topham
; the theatre was closed by a riot. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 885 |
Occupation | Leah Sumbel | Wells played the role of a (male) student at Westminster School
. Actual Westminster schoolboys took exception to this, packed the theatre, and ended the performance by rioting at her first entry. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 885 |
Reception | Hannah More | Not all responses were positive: according to Hester Lynch Thrale
, this work of HM
's caused boys at the elite Westminster School
to burn her in effigy. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 113 |
Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know). Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd, 1828. title-page |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | MJY
composed and dated a poem apparently unpublished until 1795, The Natal Day. To a Westminster
Scholar, at Windsor, during the Autumn Recess. Young, Mary Julia. Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches: with Other Poems on Various Subjects. M. D. Symonds, N. Lee, and J. Gray, 1795. 32 |
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