Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney (unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. The preface acknowledges the formative influence of Richardson (as well as Henry Fielding

The conversational style of Jane's writing (with its casual tone, frequent underlinings and dashes) and her literary tastes are also illustrated in these early letters to Bess. Recomending Rousseau 's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse...

Again EH takes the radicals as her target. The phrase modern philosophers was in common use: the Gentleman's Magazine had turned it on Mary Wollstonecraft in reviewing her first major political work. Yet Hamilton makes...

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...

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

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...

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 ...