Rev. Gilbert Wakefield

Standard Name: Wakefield, Rev. Gilbert

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
The Rev. Dr Samuel Cooper (husband of the novelist Maria Susanna Cooper ) also knew LA when she was a girl. He thought her very intelligent and preferred to talk to her at a party...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Hays
In this work MH takes a position generally compatible with that of the Dissenters. She was spurred to write by the need to answer Wakefield 's Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Hays
Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
Most responses were positive, but Barbauld's arguments were attacked by Wakefield himself (who took them personally) and by the conservative Gentleman's Magazine.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
318
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
In Remarks on . . . the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social WorshipALB answered a pamphlet by Gilbert Wakefield , published in 1791. The title-page did not at first bear her name...
Textual Production Mary Hays
Her publisher was Thomas Knott . Her fuller title was Cursory Remarks on an Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship . . . Inscribed to Gilbert Wakefield . ....

Timeline

1791: Gilbert Wakefield published An Enquiry into...

Building item

1791

Gilbert Wakefield published An Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship, whose arguments were challenged in different ways by Anna Letitia Barbauld and Mary Hays .

Texts

No bibliographical results available.