George Ballard

Other grand-daughters subscribed to George Ballard 's Memoirs of Eminent Ladies and supplied family manuscripts to aid his research.

Back in England in her second widowhood, MD was a frequent visitor to her lifelong, very close friend the Duchess of Portland . The duchess, an amateur scientist of unusual talent and achievement, brought MD

By this time, however, she was acquiring a circle of patrons. She had met Sarah Chapone , parson's wife and proto-feminist, who this same year published her anonymous, hard-hitting The Hardships of the English Laws...

SC was a great networker. Having met George Ballard , a local man (perhaps because her sister was a patient of his mother, who was a midwife), she introduced him to Elizabeth Elstob and to...

EOB writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld for praising Elizabeth Rowe . She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington is the real author of...

Lady Bridgewater's public reputation rested at first on the epitaph written on her by her husband , which George Ballard printed in full in his Memoirs of Eminent Ladies.

George Ballard , in compiling his Memoirs of Eminent Ladies, praised the Observations which the Virtuous and excellently knowing LadyDM made in this book on the Tyrannick Insolence, Oppressive and Monopilizing Tempers of...

MR 's intellectual achievements, together with her father's charisma and the touching story of her heroism and family devotion, made her for centuries a benchmark for commentators on the status of women. George Ballard set...

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...

Scholar Thomas Rawlins wrote to George Ballard (then working on his collection of women's lives) about the work of JS : he believed her longitude method to be feasible. He mentioned only obliquely that she...

George Ballard honoured MD with the dedication of the second volume of his Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, 1752, calling her the truest judge and brightest pattern of female accomplishments. She...

When George Ballard met Elstob years later she must have mentioned this unfinished project, for he was soon questioning her about Margaret Roper and Mary Astell .

On the monument to ALS in Acton church, her widower called her a Darlinge of the Nine.George Ballard mentioned her, but then until the late-twentieth century she was virtually forgotten. In recent...

SC 's friend and printer Richardson saw her project in a different and far more simple light than she did: as the administering by a good woman of an antidote to the Poison shed by...

SC used letters to introduce John Wesley to the works of Mary Astell —just as, later, she used letters to raise the consciousness of George Ballard .