Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
John Millar
Standard Name: Millar, John
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1771: John Millar published Observations concerning...
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1771
John Millar
published Observations concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 39
28 May 1777: William Robertson published at London and...
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28 May 1777
William Robertson
published at London and Edinburgh his History of America, which is in effect a history of European colonization.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
By October 1779: William Alexander argued strongly in his...
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By October 1779
William Alexander
argued strongly in his History of Women that an index to the place of any culture in the scale of civil society is its treatment of its women.
Alexander, William, 1742 - 1788, and Jane Rendall. History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity to the Present Time. Thoemmes Press, 1995, 2 vols., http://U of A Ruth N .
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
48 (1779): 255-61
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
