Jean-Jacques Rousseau

MAS adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In...

In order to present a balanced view of the events around the murder of Marat , MB adds to the two famous characters—Marat, the most pitiless seeker-out of counter-revolutionaries for the guillotine, and Corday ...

A wide spread of social institutions and systems of knowledge interests EF : she looks at the force of gendered attitudes in theology, commerce, education, psychology and philosophy. Though she intended to write of women...

Bibliographer Montague Summers named EH as translator of Jean-Claude Gorgy 's Sainte-Alme; 1790. The English version appeared anonymously as St Alma, A Novel, by April 1791, but it is now unlisted in standard...

Thirty years later she maintained that because of [c]hastity and modesty there had never been an autobiography by a woman (not one to match, for instance, Rousseau 's), but she often encouraged other women to...

This book appeared, like her next, as by a Lady; the British Library copy (filmed for Eighteenth Century Collections Online) has a manuscript note identifying the author on the printed testimony of Erasmus...

ME 's overall pedagogic project (shared with her father) was a programmatic rejection of Rousseau and Thomas Day in favour of the Warrington Academy syllabus created by Joseph Priestley . Especially noteworthy in ME

AL wrote in her diary a statement echoing Rousseau : I know my own heart, and understand my fellow man. From this her editor Helena Whitbread titled the first printed volume of the diary.

FT published some short pieces, mostly sketches of her travels such as Midnight Passage of Mont du Chat in the November 1843 issue of New Monthly Magazine, and The Value of a Shawl the...

Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby . They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell

The earliest letter addressed to David Hume, written on 20 August 1764, is rather elaborately jokey: Idol of Gaul, I worship thee not. The very cloven foot for which thou art worship'd I despise, yet...

MC 's letter-writing heroine is a young Londoner who ecstatically discovers and settles in the country. The plot concerns the love between her and the sentimental Lucius Manly, described as a poor Shaftesburean moralist...

The romantic outcast hero Walsingham feels a conflicted love for Isabella (he improbably rapes another woman who dresses as her at a masquerade, and feels only a brief remorse). He also loves his brilliant cousin...

MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...

This book uses an inductive method new to educational instruction: learning by doing (a child who searches in vain for a Latin word in the dictionary will thereby learn how inflections work), and demystifying. It...