Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45. 43
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Cultural formation | Charlotte Forman | One might suppose that CF
was without personal religious belief, since she flattered the notoriously atheistical Wilkes
with the idea that he was likely to be more charitable than somebody devout. On the other hand... |
death | Charlotte Forman | In her final letter to Wilkes
, on 9 April 1770, she had described her breaking health in such terms as make it surprising that she could live for another seventeen years afterwards. Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 8 , No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45. 43 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | One of CM
's brothers, also named John Sawbridge
, grew up a radical like herself. He became a member of parliament and Lord Mayor of London. He had a friendship with John Wilkes |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | The Rev. Thomas Wilson
, whose home CM
shared for some time, was a widower, an ambitious churchman, and a book-collector. He was absentee rector of St Stephen Walbrook in London. He had been... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | At twenty-one, he was much younger than she was (though many exaggerated the age difference), and of a lower rank (a saddler's son, and at the time of their marriage a surgeon's mate). He was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Thicknesse | Philip Thicknesse's anarchic energy tended to change the environments in which he and his family lived. Felixstowe Cottage acquired more and more whimsical decoration under his ownership; in the hills near Quoit he set up... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia King | |
Friends, Associates | Maria Barrell | She seems to have been a personal friend of John Wilkes
, and embroidered him a sword-knot as a birthday present. Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats, 1770. 42 |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | With her husband CM
lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan
after she had become a writer. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 14 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Forman | John Wilkes
became her staunch friend and patron: she built this relationship herself through the wit, charm, and pathos of her letters. Another patron, the Earl of Hillsborough
, proved disappointing as a source of... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Wright | FW
's close friend Robina Millar
had written letters of introduction for her and her sister, and once in New York they made the acquaintance of the conservative Charles Wilkes
, nephew of the radical... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | Robinson found good friends among the male cultural and social leaders with whom she remained free to mix. Her daughter particularly mentions, as well as Sheridan
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Edmund Burke
, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Seymour Montague | |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | The Political Register printed a satire, The Marriage of Junius
to Miss Laetitia Liberty: CM
(in the Character of Freedom) and Wilkes
both figure in the wedding procession. Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 32 , No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-48. 33 |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Walpole
thought CM
's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke
(coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. qtd. in Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 173 Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 74 |
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