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was courted by John Dalton
, the tutor and preacher who was suspected of having had an affair with Lady Luxborough
.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Isabella Lickbarrow
John Dalton
chemist and physicist, son of a Quaker weaver in Cumberland (who is remembered as one of the originators of modern physical science), was her cousin, whose mother, Isabella's great-aunt Deborah Dalton
, helped...
Friends, Associates
Isabella Lickbarrow
She was acquainted with her scientist cousin
. She entered into a brief, unsatisfactory patronage relationship with Lord Lonsdale
, a local magnate and patron of William Wordsworth.
Parrish, Constance. “Isabella Lickbarrow’s Relationship to John Dalton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
46
, No. 1, Mar. 1999, p. 34.
34
Parrish, Constance. “Isabella Lickbarrow to Lord Lonsdale: A Newly Discovered Letter”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
46
, No. 4, Dec. 1999, pp. 448-9.
448-9
Instructor
Isabella Lickbarrow
She may also have attended the Quaker school in Kendal where Dalton
was a teacher.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.