Jonas Hanway

Standard Name: Hanway, Jonas

Connections

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Friends, Associates Mary Scott
MS was also a correspondent of the reformer and writer Jonas Hanway , and she probably had friends or literary associates at Bath.
“Memoir of Mr. John Edward Taylor”. The Christian Reformer; or, Unitarian Magazine and Review, Vol.
xi
, Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1844, pp. 158-9.
158
Holladay, Gae, and Mary Scott. “Introduction”. The Female Advocate, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1984, p. iii - x.
iii
Publishing Mary Deverell
MD had apparently finished this poem in draft by 1782.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It was dedicated to Lord Aldborough . Subscribers included George Crabbe , Richard Graves , Jonas Hanway , Dr Robert Lowth , Hannah More ...
Publishing Sarah Lady Pennington
She appended her signature in the same form as before, S. Pennington, to her preface. The subscribers are a highly impressive collection in terms of social status; few writers subscribed and those, like Lord Chesterfield
Publishing Susannah Gunning
The title-page of this initially three-volume work calls the authors the Miss Minifies of Fairwater in Somersetshire—thus linking their identity with their rank.
Gunning, Susannah, and Margaret Minifie. The Histories of Lady Frances S—,— and Lady Caroline S——. R. and J. Dodsley, 1763, 4 vols.
title-page
The long subscription list includes Frances Boscawen , Jonas Hanway
Textual Production Mary Scott
MS penned Verses Occasioned by the Death of Jonas Hanway , Esq. (who had died on 5 September), and sent them to the Gentleman's Magazine.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1786): 1143-4
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Scott
This poem, a tribute, she says, from the Muse that lov'd thy virtues,
qtd. in
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1786): 1143
warmly celebrates Hanway 's energetic benevolence on behalf of various disadvantaged groups.

Timeline

1756: The umbrella was invented by Jonas Hanwa...

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1756

The umbrella was invented by Jonas Hanway .
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
86

June 1756: Jonas Hanway, with the help of twenty-two...

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June 1756

Jonas Hanway , with the help of twenty-two fellow-merchants, founded the Marine Society for fitting out orphan boys and unemployed men and recruiting them into the navy.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
91

10 August 1758: The Magdalen Hospital (for fallen women)...

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10 August 1758

The Magdalen Hospital (for fallen women) opened in Prescot Street, London, after a considerable campaign to influence public opinion.
Dodd, William, 1729 - 1777. An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Magdalen Hospital, for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes. 5th ed., W. Faden, 1776.
5
Bullough, Vern L. “Prostitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century England”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
9
, No. 3, May 1985, pp. 61-74.
71
Woodruff, James F. “Two More Johnson Pieces in the Universal Chronicle?”. New Rambler, 1999–2000, pp. 59-70.
63
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
49, 100, 184-5
Binhammer, Katherine. “The Virtue of Vice in the Histories of Penitent Prostitutes”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 31 Mar. 2005.

1772: An English translation, A Tour to London,...

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1772

An English translation, A Tour to London, relayed the view of Frenchman P. J. Grosley that streetwalkers in London were more numerous than at Paris, and have more liberty and effrontery than at Rome itself.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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