Hester Mulso became a member of Samuel Richardson
's circle (as depicted in the well-known drawing by Susanna Highmore
), and engaged with him in lively debate on the position, status, and duties of unmarried...
Friends, Associates
Jane Warton
Some of her brothers' friends (notably John Mulso
and the naturalist Gilbert White
) were friends of Jane's;
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
, No. 1, Mar. 1986, pp. 84-92.
85
through John she became a friend of his sister, later Hester Mulso Chapone
. Hester cryed...
New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
332
Intertextuality and Influence
Flora Thompson
The origin of the title has not been established: it may have come from Sir Walter Scott
's Peveril of the Peak, or from any one of the several place-names in which this element...
Textual Production
Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW
edited and published, complete with her introduction and notes, The Portrait of a Tortoise: Extracted from the Journals and Letters of Gilbert White, about White
's tortoise, Timothy.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
216
Timeline
8 June 1783-February 1784: Successive eruptions of poisonous gases and...
Building item
8 June 1783-February 1784
Successive eruptions of poisonous gases and particles of dust and lava from the Laki volcanic fissure in Iceland created severe damage and hardship across and beyond northern Europe.
Neale, Greg. “How an Icelandic volcano helped spark the French Revolution”. The Guardian, 16 Apr. 2010, p. 4.
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Texts
White, Gilbert. The Portrait of a Tortoise. Editor Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Chatto and Windus, 1946.