Emma Major

Standard Name: Major, Emma

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Maria De Fleury
MDF was a fervent Protestant, who had dealings with the sect of Baptists , as well as attending an Independent or Presbyterian congregation headed by John Towers (who wrote one of the prefaces to her...
Textual Production Maria De Fleury
Huntington (1745-1813) was a Calvinist clergyman, a preacher, and a phenomenally productive controversialist in print. He was an Antinomian (meaning that he held people could be saved by faith alone, disregarding obedience to commandments). He...

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Texts

Major, Emma. “Nature, taste, and nation: the dangers of Dissenting writings for children”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) 35th Annual Conference, Oxford.
Major, Emma. “The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 175-92.