Rev. Gilbert Wakefield

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...

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...

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...

Most responses were positive, but Barbauld's arguments were attacked by Wakefield himself (who took them personally) and by the conservative Gentleman's Magazine.

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...

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 . ....