Her friendships, largely maintained by correspondence, took in many of the eminent men of the day: Benjamin Franklin
, James Logan
, Benjamin Rush
, and the historian Robert Proud
. Most of these visited...
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Catharine Macaulay
With her husband CM
lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan
after she had become a writer.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
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had met novelist Laurence Sterne
and botanist-physician John Fothergill
in London. Among her large circle of friends at home, other writers were prominent. She knew the poet Nathaniel Evans
and the physician and educator...