Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Thomas Birch
Standard Name: Birch, Thomas
Connections
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Birth | Catharine Trotter | Thomas Birch
, editor of her posthumous works (and her tombstone, together with most sources until very recently), gave 16 August 1679 as her birth-date, but this would make her improbably young at the time... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Carter | During her time in London, the scholar Thomas Birch
paid EC
marked attentions. Perhaps he wanted to marry her (though she did not like him); possibly he had a different relationship in mind. He may... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Cooper | In this milieu EC
became friendly with the scholars and writers Thomas Birch
, James Ralph
, and William Oldys
. Oldys, a notable antiquary, later helped her with her editing enterprise, both with advice... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | Somehow Charlotte Ramsay secured patronage from Lady Isabella Finch
and her sister the Countess (later the Marchioness) of Rockingham
. (She left Lady Rockingham's house, however, after some alleged indiscretion with a young man, possibly... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Carter | EC
associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Thomas Birch
, Moses Browne
, Richard Savage
, William
and John Duncombe |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Carter | |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Carter | |
Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | This was CT
's greatest success. The young George Farquhar
much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon
. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 406-7 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catharine Trotter | She had begun work on these remarks during the winter of 1739. They appeared anonymously, dedicated to Pope
, in tribute to his argument about the congruence of self-love and benevolence. According to Thomas Birch |
Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | The book had gone to press in June 1757. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Publishing | Sarah Dixon | SD
reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided... |
Publishing | Catharine Trotter | Historian and biographer Thomas Birch
edited CT
's Works posthumously in two volumes (as by Mrs. Catharine Cockburn) with his memoir of her, and published them by subscription. Trotter, Catharine. The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn. Editor Birch, Thomas, J. and P. Knapton, 1751. title-page |
Publishing | Jane Brereton | The book was issued in two formats, octavo and quarto. An Advertisement identified JB
as the Gentleman's Magazine's Melissa. Subscribers included Thomas Birch
and Elizabeth Carter
. It reprinted other contributions besides those of... |
Publishing | Mary Masters | This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) qtd. in Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 409-10 |
Reception | Catherine Talbot | Copies of this letter were soon taken. Thomas Birch
secured one eight years later; another is in the Bodleian Library; circulation in manuscript continued into the 1760s, to CT
's chagrin. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 207 |
Timeline
1741, 1743: A private edition of ten copies (only) was...
Writing climate item
1741, 1743
A private edition of ten copies (only) was published of Athenian Letters or, the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war, written by Philip Yorke (later Lord Hardwicke)
By October 1754: Thomas Birch published his Memoirs of the...
Writing climate item
By October 1754
Thomas Birch
published his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
11 (1754): 241
Texts
Trotter, Catharine. “Life of Mrs. Cockburn”. The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn, edited by Thomas Birch, J. and P. Knapton, 1751, p. i - xlviii.
Trotter, Catharine. The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn. Editor Birch, Thomas, J. and P. Knapton, 1751.