Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Thomas Wright
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Standard Name: Wright, Thomas,, 1711 - 1786
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Catherine Talbot | The three girls studied Latin together. CT
also learned, under the eye of Thomas Secker
, the Bible, modern languages, and astronomy (the latter from Thomas Wright
). |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Carter | EC
wrote a playfully hyperbolic account to the astronomer Thomas Wright
of her longing to meet Catherine Talbot
; the two women met some days later. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 68 Carter, Elizabeth, and Catherine Talbot. A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1809, 4 vols. 1: 2, 12 |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Catherine Talbot | CT
first met Elizabeth Carter
, after hearing her praises sung by the scientist Thomas Wright
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 68 |
| Instructor | Elizabeth Carter | She progressed on her own later to other languages such as German, Portuguese and Arabic, and to studies with Thomas Wright
which included astronomy, mathematics, and ancient civilization and culture. Much has been made of... |
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