Thomas Robert Malthus

As an adult she was frequently engaged in serious, self-improving study. Her reading included ancient classics (Demosthenes , Sophocles , Juvenal ) and modern writings on conduct (Henrietta Maria Bowdler 's Essay on...

During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. He provided her...

JM probably knew her husband's friends Edward Jenner and William Hyde Wollaston ; she certainly knew and corresponded with John Yelloy . She was a friend on her own account of Margaret Bryan ,

HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...

In Ireland and Her Exhibition in 1865, an essay for Fraser's, FPC considered the halving of Irish population by famine and emigration from an implicitly Malthus ian perspective.

In this and her final novel she followed the advice of Ugo Foscolo , though she found it went against her grain, to choose a simple plot and build it around a single character.

In it Clio, the Muse of history, has run out of archive space and is having to delete events of the past to make space for those modern events that turn her sick with horror—not...

AB and Bradlaugh then go on to discuss their own opinions about population growth, citing the work of Malthus to argue that some checks must therefore exercise control over population, while also maintaining that...

Thomas Babington Macaulay praised this work and other political economists, like Jean-Baptiste Say , Malthus and Ricardo , approved it. Although at least one edition of more than a decade after the first was respectfully...

Political economy was controversial in itself, and the potentially scandalous exposition by a young unmarried female of matters having to do with population control provided grist for the mills of hostile reviewers. HM recollected hearing...

JSM involved himself deeply in radical politics, taking an early interest in neo-Malthus ianism. In 1823 he helped found the Utilitarian Society .

Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin , Herbert Spencer , Thomas Malthus , Thomas Huxley , Francis Galton , Edward Carpenter , John A. Hobson , and Sidney Webb . She was also inspired...

The second of the Garveloch tales finds Ella now a prosperous wife with many children. Drawing on Malthus 's theory that food supply, or capital, increases in a slower ratio than population,HM depicts...

The style is frequently Dickens ian, and as in The Pickwick Papers the action is itinerant and the characters frequently caricatures of vice. R. W. Lightbown , editor of the 1970 edition of EM 's...

For this population number of the Illustrations, HM felt the challenge of writing about human reproduction in a way that would not broach the boundaries of delicacy and propriety. While she worked at the...