Jack Simmons

Standard Name: Simmons, Jack

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Susanna Watts
Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland , SW was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters .
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004.
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The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...
Literary responses Susanna Watts
The Gentleman's Magazine called this a pleasing companion to the . . . traveller.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
74 (1804): 2: 1225
But the Critical Review thought the author showed an insufficiently scientific or antiquarian turn of mind.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 2 (1804): 350
Publishing Susanna Watts
SW 's authorship of this work was not known in her lifetime. This was a member of a very new genre: it represented only the third or fourth guidebook in English about a non-resort location...

Timeline

14 August 1838: The government legislated guarantees of punctual...

Building item

14 August 1838

The government legislated guarantees of punctual railway service for the Post Office.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2024.

Texts

Simmons, Jack, and Susanna Watts. “Introduction”. A Walk through Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1967, p. vii - xiii.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.