Connections
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Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 124 |
Education | Ann Fisher | It is not known where or how AF
acquired an education, but she certainly did so, to a far higher level than was normal for people of her class, regardless of their gender. She had... |
Education | Anne Grant | Of her childhood, AG
wrote that she developed early powers of imagination and memory, but received little attention: no one fondled or caressed me . . . I did not till the sixth year of... |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | A son, John, born early in 1728 lived only a month. Then came Spencer, born just over a year later, who rose in the Church to become a bishop, and lived until 1813; Penelope, born... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Brereton | In her youth JB
knew |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Lady Mary claimed that at every stage of her life she picked a few intimate friends and cared little for the opinions of anyone else. She always retained the highest opinion of her father's and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | In her usual formal style, which she does not adapt to the more usual conventions of epistolarity, she says it would be useless for her to give Winthrop the current domestic, and commercial intelligence, Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998. 137 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes Francis Bacon
and Joseph Addison
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992. 68 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | This volume opens with The Plan of a School, and then, continuing a story-line from volume one, with Mrs Wheatley's demanding of Miss Le Maine how she can use rouge and plume herself on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mercy Otis Warren | Though the play is set in Servia (a place chosen not for its history or geography but its sound), the names are Roman, matching the title-page quotation from Addison
's Cato. All the characters... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Johnson | The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison
had famously rendered as The spacious... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | The novel offers in passing an amusing catalogue of an old-fashioned library, whose first items are heroic romances like Ibraham; Cassandra; Cleopatra [by Madeleine de Scudéry
and Gauthier de La Calprenède
]. Several... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Smedley | By now Samuel is changing. He likens Johanna to Blake
, whom she has quoted, though he has hitherto admired the balance and rationality of Addison
. Smedley, Constance. Justice Walk. G. Allen and Unwin, 1924. 136, 249 |
Timeline
14 December 1704: Joseph Addison published The Campaign, a...
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14 December 1704
Joseph Addison
published The Campaign, a patriotic poem celebrating Marlborough
's victory of Blenheim.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
12 April 1709: Richard Steele began issuing his ground-breaking...
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12 April 1709
Richard Steele
began issuing his ground-breaking periodical The Tatler, using the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff and declaring his intention of reporting topics of talk from all the London coffeehouses.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
2 January 1711: Richard Steele ceased publishing his ground-breaking...
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2 January 1711
Richard Steele
ceased publishing his ground-breaking periodical, The Tatler.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1 March 1711: Joseph Addison began to publish the Spec...
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1 March 1711
Joseph Addison
began to publish the Spectator.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
19 May 1711: Joseph Addison, in a famous Spectator essay...
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19 May 1711
Joseph Addison
, in a famous Spectator essay in praise of trade and the Royal Exchange
, described Englishwomen as clad in exotic clothes, like spoils or tribute from all over the world.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
69 (1711): 295
21 June 1712: Joseph Addison wrote in the Spectator that...
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21 June 1712
Joseph Addison
wrote in the Spectator that a man of refined taste would take more pleasure from looking at a landscape than from owning the land.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
411 (1712): 538
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
414 (1712): 552
27 September 1712: Addison, in his role as Mr Spectator, obliged...
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27 September 1712
Addison
, in his role as Mr Spectator, obliged to look into all kinds of men, reported on the status of the Jews in England.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
495 (1712): 255
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
495 (1712): 255-8
6 December 1712: Joseph Addison and his associates ceased...
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6 December 1712
Joseph Addison
and his associates ceased publishing The Spectator.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
554 (1712): 491
14 April 1713: Joseph Addison's influential classical tragedy,...
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14 April 1713
Joseph Addison
's influential classical tragedy, Cato, opened.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2.1: 299
18 June 1714: Addison, helped by Eustace Budgell and Thomas...
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18 June 1714
Addison
, helped by Eustace Budgell
and Thomas Tickell
, began publishing a continuation of the Spectator.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
556 (1714): 498
December 1715: Joseph Addison began publishing a political...
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December 1715
Joseph Addison
began publishing a political periodical, The Freeholder.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
The Monthly Catalogue lists its opening date as 17 December; the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature says 23 December.
1767: At auctions of copyright, Richardson's Clarissa...
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At auctions of copyright, Richardson
's Clarissa was valued at £600, but Addison
and Steele
's Spectator at £1,300, Shakespeare
at £1,800, and Pope
at £4,400.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
135
Texts
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
Steele, Sir Richard et al., editors. The Guardian. University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
Addison, Joseph, and Sir Richard Steele, editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). S. Buckley and J. Tonson, 8 vols.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.