Philippina Lady Knight

ECK was born in Westminster, the only child of Sir Joseph Knight and his second wife, the former Philippina Deane .

Lady Knight , mother of ECK , died at Palermo in Sicily after suffering indifferent health for a long time.

ECK 's mother, née Philippina Deane , was born in Essex on 17 November 1726. She was a descendant of Sir Anthony Deane , shipbuilder, naval officer, Fellow of the Royal Society, and associate of...

AW 's father knew many of the leading figures in the science of his day, and she probably met them through him. Her celebrated friendship with Samuel Johnson seems to have begun through his interest...

Williams had suffered from the usual anxieties of those who began collecting subscriptions long before their book was ready: the money had been eaten up by necessities, and she was afraid of inadvertently swindling her...

Having left Genoa for Rome on this day, ECK lived there with her mother through turbulent times until early 1798. They were there when in 1792 she published her second book, Marcus Flaminius, set...

ECK and her mother fled from Romewith some difficulty to Naples after the French invaded Rome in February and confiscated British property.

After leaving Naples, where the tide of revolution had caught up with them again, ECK and her mother reached Palermo in Sicily. They sailed through storms and high seas which took a toll...

In her introduction toDinarbas, ECK indicates that her idea for the work arose from Sir John Hawkins 's claim that Samuel Johnson had intended to write a sequel to Rasselas, in which...

ECK and her mother left England with the intention of remaining abroad for three years. In the event their time abroad was eight times longer than that: it lasted until 1800.

ECK and her mother left Rome, where they had been living for some eight years, to travel south to Naples.