Thomas Birch

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...

This was CT 's greatest success. The young George Farquhar much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon . Her association with Congreve, however, brought CT (together with Mary Pix) some hostile...

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

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.

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.

CT was, like most of her contemporaries, an assiduous and entertaining correspondent. Letters that she wrote to Jemima Campbell (later Lady Grey) and Lady Mary Grey (later Gregory) were copied and circulated by Thomas Birch

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...