William Kenrick

Standard Name: Kenrick, William

Connections

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Textual Production	Frances Brooke	FB relieved her feelings over William Kenrick , her rival in translation, by publishing a verse attack on him, The Kenrickad. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983. 131ff Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 42 (1772): 586
Textual Production	Frances Brooke	The full title was Elements of the History of England from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of George II; it bore her name. The Critical Review dealt with the earlier volumes...
Textual Production	Elizabeth Griffith	EG and her husband both contributed translations to Voltaire 's works in English, issued by William Kenrick in these years. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 49 (1779): 198 Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii. xxxii

Timeline

By February 1753

William Kenrick 's conduct book The Whole Duty of Woman was published.

Kenrick, a dramatist and grammarian, also translated Rousseau 's two novels, Emile and La Nouvelle Héloïse.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.

23 (1753): 102

January 1761

Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his epistolary novel Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse; it was translated into English the same year by William Kenrick .

Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.

31 (1761): 34-5

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