Martin Madan

01 January 1725 - 01 January 1790

Standard Name: Madan, Martin,, 1725 - 1790

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Anthologization	Judith Cowper Madan	JCM 's very popular A Funeral Hymn (two 8-line stanzas, beginning In this World of Sin and Sorrow, ending Let thy gracious Will be done) Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933. 103 appeared in print in an appendix added to...
Cultural formation	Judith Cowper Madan	From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley 's fairly new religious group called the Methodists (then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Family and Intimate relationships	Judith Cowper Madan	JCM bore her eldest child, a son named Martin after his father, at her parents' townhouse in Bond Street, London. Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933. 78
Friends, Associates	Mariana Starke	From at least the late 1770s MS and her family were on terms of close friendship with Eliza and William Hayley ; Mariana's earliest extant letter to Eliza Hayley is dated 22 December 1780. William...
Publishing	Anne Francis	She quoted Pindar in Greek on the title page, and dedicated the work in a full-page inscription to John Parkhurst of Epsom, author of a Hebrew lexicon, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. as a small testament to his merit, and...

Timeline

28 March 1762

Preaching at the opening of a chapel at the LondonLock Hospital (for sexually transmitted disease) the Rev. Martin Madan pointed the finger at men who knowingly infect children.

Merians, Linda E. “The London Lock Hospital and the Lock Asylum for Women”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 128-45.

134-5

After April 1763

Martin Madan published An Account of the Triumphant Death of F. S. a Converted Prostitute, who had supposedly died recently at the age of twenty-six.

Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.

16-17

By November 1780

Martin Madan published Thelyphthora: Or, a Treatise on Female Ruin, on the topic of prostitution.

Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.

11n11, 40, 99, 208

Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.

50 (1780): 401ff

Texts

Madan, Martin, 1725 - 1790, editor. A Collection of Psalms and Hymns: Extracted from Various Authors. 1760.

Madan, Martin, 1725 - 1790, editor. A Collection of Psalms and Hymns: Extracted From Various Authors. 2nd ed., 1763.