William Russell
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Standard Name: Russell, William,, 1741 - 1793
Connections
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Textual Production | Susannah Dobson | The book appeared through Dodsley
, and promised anecdotes from actual medieval writers. Sainte-Palaye's original work was well known to such historians as Richard Hurd
, and had had excerpts incorporated by William Russell
in... |
Textual Production | Jemima Kindersley | Her full title is An Essay on the Character, the Manners, and the Understanding of Women, in Different Ages. She had come upon Thomas's work by chance and thought it superior to a rather... |
Timeline
14 March 1773
Louise d'Epinay
composed, in a letter to Ferdinando Galiani
, a riposte to Essai sur le charactère, les moeurs, et l'esprit des femmes by Antoine Leonard Thomas
, which had appeared in early January 1772.
By May 1773
William Russell
anonymously published An Essay on the Character, Manner, and Genius of Women in different Ages, translated from the French of Antoine Leonard Thomas
.
By July 1777
William Russell
published his History of America in two volumes at London. The date on the title page reads 1778.