Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany. T. Bensley, 1801.
Richard Polwhele
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Standard Name: Polwhele, Richard
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | While in Bath, CM
made a number of new friends: the Rev. Augustus Toplady
, preacher and hymn-writer, and Clement Cruttwell
, surgeon. In 1777 she met Richard Polwhele
, then a very young poet... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Arabella Rowden | She dedicated the work to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
(aunt of her pupil Lady Caroline Lamb
), who blooms the sweetest flow'r in Britain's isle. |
| Literary responses | Susannah Dobson | Not long after her death, SD
was mentioned by Mary Robinson
as one of the enlightened British women who had enriched their country with valuable translations. Another who agreed about her attainments was Richard Polwhele |
| Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Vindication provoked a storm of comment and replies, in reviews (the Monthly was respectful both of her project and its execution, but the Critical, though its review was long and detailed, was scathingly... |
| Literary responses | Mary Hays | This time most reviews were respectful: the Analytical of course, the Monthly (in which William Taylor
noted that the novel was a cut above the common run, with serious and unusual moral teaching to impart)... |
| Other Life Event | Mary Wollstonecraft | Richard Polwhele
's The Unsex'd Females, an attack on her and the community and ideals which she represented, followed within the year. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Timeline
1789: Erasmus Darwin published The Loves of the...
Writing climate item
1789
Erasmus Darwin
published The Loves of the Plants, as the second part of his scientific poem The Botanic Garden.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
1798: Richard Polwhele published The Unsex'd Females,...
Building item
1798
Richard Polwhele
published The Unsex'd Females, his notorious attack on Wollstonecraft
and other active radicals.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 27 (1799): 231-2
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Texts
Polwhele, Richard. The Unsex’d Females. Cadell and Davies, 1798.