JK
received £25 from James Dodsley
for her recently published translation of An Essay on Women, from the French of Antoine Leonard Thomas
(dating from 1772).
Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Susannah Dobson
The book appeared through Dodsley
, and promised anecdotes from actual medieval writers. Sainte-Palaye's original work was well known to such historians as Richard Hurd
, and had had excerpts incorporated by William Russell
in...
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14 March 1773: Louise d'Epinay composed, in a letter to...
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14 March 1773
Louise d'Epinay
composed, in a letter to Ferdinando Galiani
, a riposte to Essai sur le charactère, les moeurs, et l'esprit des femmes by Antoine Leonard Thomas
, which had appeared in early January 1772...
By May 1773: William Russell anonymously published An...
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By May 1773
William Russell
anonymously published An Essay on the Character, Manner, and Genius of Women in different Ages, translated from the French of Antoine Leonard Thomas
.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
1252
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
35 (1773): 376-81
Texts
Thomas, Antoine Leonard. An Essay on the Character, the Manners, and the Understanding of Women. Translator Kindersley, Jemima, J. Dodsley, 1781.