Francis Bacon

She says she never solicited for a place, though she wrote to the Princess on the death of Queen Anne. Her post involved a week of constant waiting on the Princess followed by some...

It was dated 1851. Her biographer R. K. Webb claims that the bulk of the book is Atkinson 's, with promptings from Harriet Martineau , although it certainly also includes substantial letters from her.HM

The full title is Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean.

Makin proposes a curriculum which blends tradition with innovation. In arguing that it is more important to know things, than to get words and that languages (the staple of current male education) are subservient to...

The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon , Virgil , and Sir Roger L'Estrange . A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the...

The book is dedicated To My Friend, with a quotation about friendship from Francis Bacon . It seems now to be very rare. The Bodleian Library has a copy, but the British Library

The title-page adapts a remark of Francis Bacon about the exchange of thoughts with friends. EL 's own subtitle stresses that her emphasis here will be on ideas, or statements of personal philosophy, rather than...

The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon (Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones (Read and you will know). It portrays the widow Mrs...

The title-page quotes Francis Bacon and Joseph Addison .

Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans

SG 's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day, whether in religion, politics...

Though she still found it hard to write in the country, RG called this the happiest house we have had. Three years later she suddenly moved again; she missed London, and felt her elder...

The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. The body...

DDM published a biographical study: Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon , Francis and Their Friends (whose title comes from the dirge for Fedele in Shakespeare 's Cymbeline).

DDM published The Winding Stair, a biography of Sir Francis Bacon (about whom she had already written the previous year in Golden Lads).