Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto, 2012.
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Thomas Jefferson
Standard Name: Jefferson, Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | This story addresses the contact of different cultures so beloved by RPJ
: Thomas Jefferson
the enlightenment slave-owner, US ambassador in the pre-revolutionary Paris of 1784-9. She drew on Fawn Brodie
's controversial biography (... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | They were highly sociable on their travels. As former supporters of the cause of American independence they met with Thomas Jefferson
. After their return to England they continued to enlarge their circle. In July... |
| Friends, Associates | Hannah Cowley | She also owed to her father's contacts the early patronage (crucial for both herself and her husband) of Nathaniel Ryder, Lord Harrowby
. Another friendship formed in Tiverton was that with artist Richard Cosway
... |
| Friends, Associates | Hannah Cowley | In Paris she stayed at the Hôtel Vendome, and through Maria Cosway
and other contacts met Thomas Jefferson
and many social and cultural leading lights of Paris. |
| Friends, Associates | Mercy Otis Warren | Though MOW
's strongest friendships were probably with men (John Adams
, Thomas Jefferson
, and others), some friendships with women were very important to her, notably that with Abigail Adams
. In her... |
| Literary responses | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Early, informal response centred on the play's daring political message, which made SHR
famous or notorious. People spoke of the play as Americans in Algiers or Slaves Released from Algiers. Montgomery, Benilde. “Slaves in Algiers: Susanna Rowsons First American Play”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Apr. 1991. |
| Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
's play Jefferson
's Garden was published, set in the American colonies in 1776 and borrowing a title recently used for a book of garden history. It opened at Watford Palace Theatre
the same month. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
| Performance of text | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Merchant-Ivory
's controversial and largely unpopular Jefferson
in Paris was finally released; in its original form RPJ
's script dates back to the 1980s. Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 190 Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Newly updated ed., Harry N. Abrams, 1997. 262, 222-3 |
| politics | Germaine de Staël | Habitués of her salon included Lafayette
, Condorcet
, Narbonne
, Talleyrand
, and Thomas Jefferson
. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , 2001, pp. 12-35. 21 |
| Reception | Elizabeth Elstob | Elstob probably succeeded in modifying Swift
's views: he later adopted some of hers. Elstob, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities, edited by Charles Peake, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1956, p. i - v. iv-v Hughes, Shaun F. D. “The Anglo-Saxon Grammars of George Hickes and Elizabeth Elstob”. Anglo-Saxon Scholarship, the First Three Centuries, edited by Carl T. Berkhout and Milton McC. Gatch, G. K. Hall, 1982, pp. 119-47. 119-20 and n2 |
| Textual Features | Frances Trollope | The book begins with a dedication to those states of the American Union in which slavery has been abolished, or never permitted. Trollope, Frances, and Auguste Hervieu. The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw. Richard Bentley , 1836, 3 vols. 1 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | This first volume argues strenuously that anomalies in national institutions will have pernicious effects on the laws and ultimately imperil the union itself. Within this context HM
refers both to the system of chattel slavery... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ezra Pound | These include the Jefferson
Cantos, which champion the rationality of America's founders, contrasted to the darkness of Europe. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. 7 |
Timeline
4 July 1776: The third US Congress (Second Continental...
National or international item
4 July 1776
The third US Congress (Second Continental Congress), meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, adopted the Declaration of Independence.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
560
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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November 1800: In the US election the Democratic-Republicans...
National or international item
November 1800
In the US election the Democratic
-Republicans
decisively defeated John Adams
and the Federalist party
. According to the system of that time Thomas Jefferson
was chosen for President (over Aaron Burr
) not...
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