Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, 2006, p. i - xxi.
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Literary responses
Jane Marcet
Thomas Babington Macaulay
praised this work and other political economists, like Jean-Baptiste Say
, Malthus
and Ricardo
, approved it. Although at least one edition of more than a decade after the first was respectfully...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Heyrick
Her concerns are propagandistic rather than literary: Enquiry into the Consequences of the Present Depreciated Value of Human Labour recycles passages from her own Exposition, and On the Advantages of a High Remunerating Price...
Textual Features
Harriet Martineau
HM
's Illustrations tale For Each and For All (often in later editions subtitled or, Letitia and Maria) is an attack from a Ricardian
standpoint on Owen
ite socialism. She modified the anti-socialist tone...
Timeline
1817: David Ricardo (1772-1823), a London writer...
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1817
David Ricardo
(1772-1823), a London writer and thinker of Sephardic Jewish descent, published his influential On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.
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1823: William Huskisson, as MP for Liverpool and...
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1823
William Huskisson
, as MP for Liverpool and President of the Board of Trade
, secured the equalization of customs duties in Britain and Ireland, a big step on the road towards free trade.
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