Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
46 (1778): 160; 47 (1779): 320
Josiah Wedgwood
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Standard Name: Wedgwood, Josiah,, 1730 - 1795
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were connected to the Unitarian
tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood
as well as to the largely Anglican
evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect
centred close to their home in South London... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Wedgwood | Josiah Wedgwood
, the abolitionist and pottery magnate whose name lives on as a brand of china, was her great-grandfather. |
| 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 | Anne Marsh | |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
| Health | Julia Wedgwood | Between the ages of seventy and eighty, JW
's health began to fail. In addition to her lifelong deafness, she began to suffer from slowly encroaching blindness. She also suffered from cancer, which was removed... |
| Leisure and Society | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
was in general unwilling to have any picture made of her (which casts some doubt on the six images said to be of her in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery
). But... |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The Critical Review gave high praise to each of the series. So did the Monthly, which also cracked her anonymity from the beginning. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 191-2 |
| politics | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
was already politically aware before she first travelled to Paris in 1790. She was a supporter of the London Revolution Society
(founded to remember the importance of the Glorious Revolution in England, but ready... |
| Author summary | Eliza Meteyard | EM
, who used the pseudonym Silverpen, was a self-supporting early Victorian writer who published prolifically in a wide range of periodicals, particularly those aimed at the lower-middle and working classes, in addition to... |
| Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III
fell ill, probably... |
| Reception | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Miss Aikin's Poems sold five hundred copies in just over four months, and the second edition sold a similar number in a similar period. In September a third edition was announced. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 111 |
| Residence | Ann Radcliffe | William Ward then got the job of managing Josiah Wedgwood
's new china showroom in Bath. He and his wife moved there some time in 1772, while little Ann was kept out of the... |
| Textual Production | Julia Wedgwood | Two years after JW
's death The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood
the Potter, her biography of her great-grandfather the master potter, was published. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. 665 |
| Textual Production | Eliza Meteyard | The first volume of EM
's two-volume biography The Life of Josiah Wedgwood appeared. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1961 (1865): 715 |
Timeline
1759: Josiah Wedgwood leased a pottery at Burslem...
Building item
1759
Josiah Wedgwood
leased a pottery at Burslem in Staffordshire (where he had begun as a worker twenty years before), and began production.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
623
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1765: The Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group...
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1765
The Lunar Society
of Birmingham, a group of half a dozen men with interests in experimental science, began to meet regularly.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
33
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
424
1769: Richard Arkwright set up a water-powered...
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1769
Richard Arkwright
set up a water-powered spinning mill of his own invention near Hockley, Nottingham.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1769: Josiah Wedgwood opened a new pottery at Etruria...
Building item
1769
Josiah Wedgwood
opened a new pottery at Etruria near Hanley in Staffordshire, a village he had designed and built for his workpeople.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
22 May 1787: The Society for the Abolition of the Slave...
National or international item
22 May 1787
The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
was founded in London, by Granville Sharp
, Thomas Clarkson
, and ten more, of whom nine were Quakers
.
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xii
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
83
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
109
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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