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| Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | |
| Education | Julia Kristeva | Most of JK
's education in Bulgaria took place in French (a habit among the intelligentsia dating from before Communism), though Russian was also a compulsory subject. Her parents were unusual in choosing a French-speaking... |
| Education | Charlotte Brooke | CB
was educated by her father
, who was interested in Irish language and culture, and was influenced by the pedagogic ideas of Rousseau
. Brooke, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry, edited by Lesa Ni Mhunghaile, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2009, p. xxv - xliv. xxv |
| Education | George Sand | Her upbringing had a freedom in accordance with the dictates of Rousseau
rather than the conventions of her class. Her father's tutor, François Deschartres, instructed the young Aurore in botany, mathematics, Latin, and Greek. At... |
| Education | Dorothy Wellesley | She also furthered her own education by early-morning visits to the library, sometimes permitted though sometimes stopped, during which she read everything I could lay hands on, including Tennyson
, Matthew Arnold
, Swift
's... |
| Education | Fredrika Bremer | As FB grew older, she became increasingly interested in novels. At the age of fifteen she was beyond measure happy Bremer, Fredrika. Life, Letters, and Posthumous Works of Fredrika Bremer. Editor Bremer, Charlotte, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868, https://archive.org/details/lifelettersposth00bremuoft/mode/2up. 34 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
's life was complicated by her relationship with Lady Elizabeth Foster
: a relationship which involved her husband as well, since Bess shared him during Georgiana's life and married him after... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
endeavoured to be prepared for the arrival of her child; she purportedly continued reading Rousseau
's Émile (a treatise on education which devotes almost all of its attention to boys) until well into her... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | Percy Shelley
had dreams of enacting sexual liberation which Mary did not fully share. In France in 1814 she declined to swim naked in a river with him; according to Claire she objected that it... |
| Fictionalization | Héloïse | Since then she has remained a favourite subject for fiction (generally in her role as mistress rather than writer or churchwoman). Alexander Pope
spread her reputation considerably when he borrowed her voice for his popular... |
| Friends, Associates | Alison Cockburn | Her friendship with Hume
was one of ease and intimacy. She joked with him and teased him, tried earnestly to convert him from atheism to Christianity, urged him to visit France and to bring Rousseau |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | Again the novel centres on its heroine; again the message is dark; again Rousseau
's Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloise is an important presence in the text. This time, however, it is complex rather than... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Macaulay | The letters are addressed to Hortensia (the name of a Roman matron who acted against gender convention by speaking publicly in the Forum against a proposed tax on women). O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 115 This name had been used... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
was replying to a number of authoritative male texts about the nature of women: by Burke
(who in Reflections on the Revolution in France had glorified Marie-Antoinette
and dismissed non-queenly femininity as animal), Rousseau |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | This work of pedagogy takes the form of an epistolary novel: a picture of contemporary culture, since its range of reference to other texts is wide. It assumes, like Rousseau
's Nouvelle Héloïse, the... |
Timeline
By February 1753: William Kenrick's conduct book The Whole...
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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
1 November 1755: A major earthquake at Lisbon in Portugal...
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1 November 1755
A major earthquake at Lisbon in Portugal killed more than 10,000 people (estimates vary), provoking theological debate between Rousseau
and Voltaire
about the nature of evil.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. Mary; and, The Wrongs of Woman. Editor Kelly, Gary, World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1980.
28, 211
Mantel, Hilary. “The Real Price of Everything”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2007, pp. 3-6.
3
King, Kathryn R. “The Young Lady, the Old Maid, and the Lisbon Earthquake”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, 19 Oct. 2017.
The heroine of Wollstonecraft
's first...
January 1761: Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his epistolary...
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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
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.
By October 1762: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile, a novel of...
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By October 1762
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
's Émile, a novel of education published in the earlier part of this year in French, had its first English translation as Emilius and Sophia.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
14 (1763): 250-70
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.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Robinson Crusoe, edited by John J. Richetti, Penguin, 2001, p. ix - xxxiv.
xxii
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
113
1764: Mademoiselle d'Espinassy published Essai...
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1764
Mademoiselle d'Espinassy
published Essai sur l'éducation des demoiselles, a considered response to Rousseau
's Emile.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
64, 66
1774: Louise d'Epinay, former friend and patron...
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1774
Louise d'Epinay
, former friend and patron of Rousseau
, published Conversations d'Emilie, a book on education for girls designed to counter the message of his Emile.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
64-5, 151 and n78
1785: Botanist Thomas Martyn translated into English...
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1785
Botanist Thomas Martyn
translated into English a work of Rousseau
's of 1771-3 as Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to a Lady: it had eight editions in the next thirty years.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
19-20
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.
By July 1788: The publication of a Beauties of Rousseau...
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By July 1788
The publication of a Beauties of Rousseau marked his popularity in England.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
58 (1788): 635
Between 25 and 27 August 1789: In Paris, the National Assembly adopted the...
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Between 25 and 27 August 1789
In Paris, the National Assembly
adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
x
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
183
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
148
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
64, 170
Historians differ as to the date. Godineau (369) gives August 25; Soboul...
By August 1794: Rousseau's autobiographical Confessions appeared...
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By August 1794
Rousseau
's autobiographical Confessions appeared in English, translated by Robert Jephson
.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 11 (1794): 390
9 July 1798: George Canning, writing in the Anti-Jacobin,...
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9 July 1798
George Canning
, writing in the Anti-Jacobin, lambasted sensibility as a literary mode stemming from France, from Rousseau
, and from diseased fancy, effeminacy, and self-obsession.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
170
1801: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi suggested, in...
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1801
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
suggested, in Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt, that girls' education is even more vital than boys', since girls will one day educate children of their own.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
212
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Texts
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Editorial Materials”. Rousseau Religious Writings, edited by Ronald Grimsley, Clarendon Press, 1970.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Émile. Jean Néaulme, 1762, 4 vols.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloise. Marc Michel Rey, 1761, 6 vols.