The work was based on a series of thirteen lectures given at her school. It was dedicated to Princess Charlotte
and to Charles Hutton
, scientist and writer, and published by subscription. Subscribers included 157...
Family and Intimate relationships
Catherine Hutton
As an adult, CH
made regular visits to London to visit her eminent cousin Dr Charles Hutton
(Professor of Mathematics at Woolwich Royal Military Academy), her senior by about twenty years.
Friends, Associates
Anna Jane Vardill
While she lived in London AJV
moved in culturally active circles. She later described the poet Eleanor Anne Porden
(who lived not far away) as her dear friend, and was one of those who...
Literary responses
Margaret Bryan
MB
's work met with approval and admiration from scientist Charles Hutton
.
Phillips, Patricia. The Scientific Lady. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990.
177
Her reputation as a science writer no doubt accounted for the mistaken attribution to her of the eighth edition of Jane Marcet
Textual Production
Margaret Bryan
The full title runs A Compendious System of Astronomy, in a course of familiar lectures; in which the principles of that science are clearly elucidated, so as to be intelligible to those who have not...
Timeline
3 November 1703: John Tipper, a schoolmaster of Coventry,...
Building item
3 November 1703
John Tipper
, a schoolmaster of Coventry, wrote to Humfrey Wanley
about his projected Ladies' Diary, or The Woman's Almanack.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
45-52
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
25
Ellis, Sir Henry, editor. Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Camden Society, 1843.
304-14
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
144
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
14 February 1744: Following the deaths, intestate, of her husband,...
Writing climate item
14 February 1744
Following the deaths, intestate, of her husband, Henry Beighton
, and their only son, Elizabeth Beighton
secured, with some difficulty, the editorial or managerial role in The Ladies' Diary for herself.
Miegon, Anna E. The Ladies Diary and the Emergence of the Almanac for Women, 1704-1753. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2008.