Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 189
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
Textual Production | Susanna Wright | A few of SW
's numerous letters have reached print: among the papers of Benjamin Franklin
, for example. |
Textual Production | Susanna Wright | |
Textual Production | Tabitha Tenney | TT
dedicated her work to all Columbian Young Ladies who read Novels & Romances, and headed it with a Latin proverb translated as Learn to be wise by others harm, / and you shall do... |
Textual Features | Deborah Norris Logan | She described its large, handsome garden as a magnet for visitors, the meetings of the Assembly of Pennsylvania
there when Isaac Norris
was Speaker and too infirm to attend elsewhere, its fortunes during the war... |
Textual Features | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
's essays in this volume include The Two Fredericks and Franklin
's America. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 189 |
Publishing | Sarah, Lady Pennington | She appended her signature in the same form as before, S. Pennington, to her preface. The subscribers are a highly impressive collection in terms of social status; few writers subscribed and those, like Lord Chesterfield |
Occupation | Susanna Wright | SW
became widely known for her various activities. She not only took care of her family (and later the family of her brother James) but also raised silkworms on a large scale, and was regarded... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | The Guide to Scotland opens with instructions: Provide yourself with a strong roomy carriage, and have the springs well corded; have also a stop-pole and strong chain to the chaise. Take with you linch-pins, and... |
Friends, Associates | Susanna Wright | Her friendships, largely maintained by correspondence, took in many of the eminent men of the day: Benjamin Franklin
, James Logan
, Benjamin Rush
, and the historian Robert Proud
. Most of these visited... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,... |
Friends, Associates | Phillis Wheatley | Her enumeration of those she met in London is impressive, including several noblemen, Benjamin Franklin
, the scientist Daniel Solander
, the religious poet and hymn-writer Thomas Gibbons
, the abolitionist Granville Sharp
(who took... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson | An engagement to William Franklin
, natural son of Benjamin Franklin
, ended, painfully for her, in his marriage to somebody else. Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
's father, John Vardill
, was born in the American colonies in 1749 and educated at King's College
, New York (the forerunner of Columbia University). In 1773 he became Professor of Natural Law... |
Dedications | Phillis Wheatley | She planned to dedicate it to Benjamin Franklin
, and to charge subscribers twelve pounds for bound and nine for unbound copies (an indication that colonial prices were higher than those in Britain). |