No facts are known for certain about JS
's education, but she seems to have been well-read. She took an informed interest in cultural customs, climate and landscape, and natural-world and scientific innovation. It seems...
politics
Janet Schaw
Keith A. Sandiford connects her assumption of the inferiority of black people to the similar feelings of David Hume
.
Sandiford, Keith A. The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism. Cambridge University Press.
93
Some of her attitudes to class and race emerge clearly from the early pages...
Publishing
Helena Wells
It was issued by Cadell and Davies
, with title-page reference to The Step-Mother and a quotation from Akenside
on virtue as a source of happiness. HW
's preface, composed while living in Westminster...