Jean-Jacques Rousseau

John Cordy Jeaffreson gave two full Athenæum columns to Half-a-Million of Money, but largely in order to complain that in spite of its unusual plot the novel was essentially derivative, and sapped his confidence...

Half-a-Million of Money has an ingenious, if somewhat schematic plot. Its hero, Saxon Trefalden, has been brought up in Switzerland (his native country) by an aged uncle, a pastor, according to the principles of Rousseau

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

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...

Literary memoirs and old second-hand illustrated editions testify to ME 's enormously wide juvenile audience during the Victorian period. She influenced the work of later children's writers as various as Louisa May Alcott , Frances Hodgson Burnett

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

CB was educated by her father , who was interested in Irish language and culture, and was influenced by the pedagogic ideas of Rousseau . He taught by encouraging her curiosity rather than by...

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 ...

This novel is heavy-handedly moralistic. The heroine, Miriam Harcott, is the child of an atheistical philosopher (converted in the end by a good—not Methodist—clergyman) and a careless mother who causes the deaths of three of...