Her education continued throughout her life. Her first employer owned a bookstore and maintained a private library in which he permitted her to read. She indulged herself in the works of John Ruskin
, John Stuart Mill
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also associated with various men of letters during her time in Paris, including Gustave de Beaumont
, who at that time was editing the letters of Alexis de Tocqueville
.
Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920.
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1805: Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and...
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1805
Alexis de Tocqueville
, French historian and sociologist, was born.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1835: Alexis de Tocqueville published the first...
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1835
Alexis de Tocqueville
published the first part of La démocratie en Amérique.
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1856
Alexis de Tocqueville
published L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution, a study of pre-evolutionary France.
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16 April 1859
French historian and sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville
died of tuberculosis.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.