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Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | At Easter 1651, in Hells Destruction, LED
unleashed a flood of biblical rhetoric against Thomas Paine
the printer, who had had her imprisoned for debt. Paine the printer is not to be confused with... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She said she had made notes towards this project, but thought the task too big for her (and that it would have had to be begun sooner). Burke had already attracted two indignant answers: Wollstonecraft |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | Her niece Matilda Betham-Edwards
recorded that at fourteen she sat down to answer and refute Tom Paine
's political arguments. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Six Life Studies of Famous Women. Griffith and Farran. 234 |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | SB
composed a song, Wey, Ned, Man! (to the tune of Ranting, roaring Willie), which features two countrymen debating the pros and cons of Tom Paine
's Rights of Man. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 93 |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | To the same period of 1791 or a little later belongs Wey, Ned, Man!, one of SB
's best-remembered Cumberland ballads, in which, to a jaunty traditional tune, two farmers discuss Tom Paine
's... |
Textual Production | Joanna Southcott | JS
published an An Answer to Thomas Paine
's Third Part of The Age of Reason. 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. |
Reception | Mary Wollstonecraft | Radicals, however, responded positively. William Roscoe
(father of Mary Anne Jevons
) hailed MW
in a poem satirising Burke. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin. 126-7 |
Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Joseph Johnson
did not advertise this work, yet an edition was printed as far away as Dundee. It was popularly priced at sixpence, six months before Hannah More
's Village Politics and nearly three... |
politics | Hannah Griffitts | HG
was an American patriot who was nonetheless not happy about the war of independence; she described herself as a Whig. It is clear from her poetry that her Quaker pacifist beliefs were strongly felt... |
politics | Clara Reeve | CR
said that her father was an old Whig, and it appears that her own politics were of the same stamp. She favoured social reforms like improved education for women, and welcomed the early... |
politics | Helen Maria Williams | Also among the guests was Tom Paine
. Williams herself was not present, both because she was ill and because she was a woman. By this date she had already been horrified at the September... |
Literary responses | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Early, informal response centred on the play's daring political message, which made SHR
famous or notorious. People spoke of the play as Americans in Algiers or Slaves Released from Algiers. Montgomery, Benilde. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Slaves in Algiers</span>: Susanna Rowson’s First American Play”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. |
Leisure and Society | Anna Margaretta Larpent | In a typical day, AML
read Tom Paine
to herself, and Sarah Trimmer
and some Latin with her sons. She went to see the kangaroo, the Polygraphic Exhibition, and Thomas Holcroft
's Road to Ruin. Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux. 56 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The work is headed with a motto: Feeling, not genius, prompts the lay, Feminist Companion Archive. |