Perry, Ruth et al. “Introduction”. Henrietta, edited by Ruth Perry et al., University Press of Kentucky.
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Bonnell Thornton
Standard Name: Thornton, Bonnell
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Elizabeth Carter | She printed this with her father's approval and support; he suggested, as scholar Gwen Hampshire
has pointed out, that she should print about three dozen copies. When George Colman
and Bonnell Thornton
included EC
in... |
| Friends, Associates | Susannah Dobson | SD
, along with the novelist Charlotte Lennox
and Sylvia (Braithwaite) Thornton
(the wife from 1768 of Bonnell Thornton
), belonged to a network of devoted friends centred on Lydia, Lady Clerke
. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | MJ
corresponded with Charlotte Lennox
and with publisher Ralph Griffiths
and his wife Isabella
. Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson
, Joseph Spence
, Thomas Warton
, and apparently Bonnell Thornton |
| Publishing | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
's nephew William Cowper
the poet, with whom she corresponded, took an interest in her work and was probably the channel through which her poems reached the anthologists Colman
and Thornton
. Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780. Bucknell University Press. 155n55 |
| Reception | Mary Masters | MM
's friendship with Johnson laid her open to suspicion that he had revised and polished her poems. But this work was praised in the Gentleman's Magazine. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 25 (1755) 190-1 |
| Anthologization | Catharine Trotter | Several shorter poems by CT
are known today only from their inclusion in George Colman
's and Bonnell Thornton
's anthology Poems by Eminent Ladies in its edition of 1757. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 223-4 |
Timeline
16 January-9 April 1752: Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant,...
Writing climate item
16 January-9 April 1752
Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant, Bonnell Thornton
issued thirteen weekly numbers of a periodical entitled Have at You All; or, The Drury Lane Journal.
31 January 1754-30 September 1756: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton published...
Writing climate item
31 January 1754-30 September 1756
George Colman
and Bonnell Thornton
published their periodicalThe Connoisseur, under the pen name of Mr Town, critic and censor-general.
By 22 May 1755: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited...
Women writers item
By 22 May 1755
George Colman
and Bonnell Thornton
edited and published an anthology entitled Poems by Eminent Ladies.
By the end of 1755: Material from Bonnell Thornton's and George...
Women writers item
By the end of 1755
Material from Bonnell Thornton
's and George Colman
's prestigious anthology, Poems by Eminent Ladies, was recycled for a different market in A Select Collection of the Love Letters of several Eminent Persons, edited by G. Gaylove.
26 November 1761: John Rich, holder of the licence for Covent...
Building item
26 November 1761
John Rich
, holder of the licence for Covent Garden Theatre
, died; his widow, Priscilla
(who had been a performer before her marriage), took nominal control of the theatre.
Texts
Colman, George, and Bonnell Thornton, editors. Poems by Eminent Ladies. R. Baldwin, 1755.
Colmon, George, and Bonnell Thornton, editors. Poems by Eminent Ladies. W. Stafford, 1785.
Colman, George, and Bonnell Thornton. The Connoisseur. Harrison, http://U of A Special Collections.