Her recent visit to the Duchess of Somerset
(formerly Lady Hertford, whose little grandson and great-nephew were the good and naughty boys of the story) had exposed her to the influence of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Anthologization
Sarah Lady Pennington
An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters quickly became a staple of composite volumes directed toward young women's conduct. At Edinburgh a volume of this kind, Instructions for a Young Lady, in every sphere...
Anthologization
Sarah Lady Pennington
An Additional Letter, on the Management and Education of Infant Children by SLP
was added to a number of reprints of her work. Its first appearance seems to have been in a composite volume in...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Montagu
EM
was a family friend of Dr John Gregory
(author of A Father's Legacy to His Daughters and his daughter Dorothea. In the 1760s they visited Scotland together, and John Gregory introduced EM
to two...
Literary responses
Sarah Lady Pennington
This book was barely reviewed on its first appearance, but for a five-page notice in the short-lived Grand Magazine of Universal Intelligence and Monthly Chronicle of Our Own Times (1758-1760) in December 1760. The work's...
Publishing
Hester Mulso Chapone
This work was reprinted with Dr Gregory
's A father's legacy to his daughters, Edinburgh, 1868, and in Tilt's Miniature Classical Library, 1835.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Early this same year the Gentleman's Magazine printed with her...
Publishing
Mary Wollstonecraft
It was dedicated to the French statesman Talleyrand
, a supporter of the Revolution and the reputed lover of Germaine de Staël
. She produced a second, revised edition by the end of the year...
Textual Features
Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
A conservative, even reactionary opening address deplores the influence of fashion and luxury: not only ladies but servants and even men, those mighty Goliahs of the earth,
Mosse, Henrietta Rouviere. Gratitude, and Other Tales. A. K. Newman, 1826, 3 vols.
EM
toured Scotland with Dorothea
and Dr John Gregory
; she visited Edinburgh, Dalkeith, and Glasgow.
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols.
1: 143-7
Timeline
By April 1774: A Father's Legacy to His Daughters, by Dr...
Building item
By April 1774
A Father's Legacy to His Daughters, by Dr John Gregory
, was posthumously published.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
75
Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
1: 36n92
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
101
28 November 1776: The otherwise unidentified Mrs H. Cartwright...
Women writers item
28 November 1776
The otherwise unidentified Mrs H. Cartwright
wrote the dedication to Elizabeth Montagu
of her first work, Letters on Female Education Addressed to a Married Lady, which appeared early the next year.
Cartwright, Mrs H. Letters on Female Education Addressed to a Married Lady. E. and C. Dilly, 1777.
prelims
Texts
Gregory, John, and Sarah, Lady Pennington. “Introduction”. A Father’s Legacy to his Daughters [with] A Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters, J. B. Dow, 1834, pp. 65-6.
Gregory, John, and Sarah, Lady Pennington. “Introduction”. A Father’s Legacy to his Daughters [with] A Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters, S. Andrus and Son, 1853, pp. 65-6.
Montagu, Elizabeth, and John Gregory. Letter of E. Montagu to Dr. John Gregory (undated).