Thomas Birch

More than fifty of AB 's letters survive, written by herself in her atrocious handwriting. Thomas Birch printed excerpts in his life of Queen Elizabeth, 1754. Some entire letters (rich in Puritan fervour and classical...

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...

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

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...

The work she translated was Algarotti 's Italian version of Newton 's Optics. The project of translating back from the Italian popularisation of this famous work was recommended to her by Thomas Birch ....

This work brought EC much attention and praise in print: Thomas Birch wrote a glowing review.

The book had gone to press in June 1757. The original press run of 1,018 copies had to be supplemented with a further 250. First of several more editions was the Dublin one of the...

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...

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...

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...

CL later said she was writing verses before she had finished learning to read. Thomas Birch preserved a copy in English and a Latin translation of The Dream, an Ode, which she had written...

This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) included Samuel Johnson , Mrs Gardiner of Snow-Hill, Thomas Birch , a John Cockburne who may well have...

Again Theophilus Rowe saw to the business side of this publication. Thomas Birch sent ESR a poem of his own (on his wife's death) as a contribution to volume two, but it arrived too late...

These letters are now in the British Library , together with Thomas Birch 's notes on them.

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.