Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd, 1828.
title-page
Sir William Jones
Standard Name: Jones, Sir William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Christian Isobel Johnstone | 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). |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Smith | Smith translated various different parts of the Old Testament. Bowdler showed some of some of her versions from Hebrew to a scholar of that language, who assumed that the writer was male and responded... |
| Literary responses | Maria Callcott | Rosemary Mitchell
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls her a popular exponent of the scholarly work of orientalists such as Sir William Jones
, explaining and celebrating Hindu culture and achievements and attempting... |
| politics | Elizabeth Fenton | Her attitudes towards sightseeing were politically inflected: her feelings about India remained classbound. She admired Sir William Jones
(a knowledgeable and sympathetic scholar of Indian culture) and even voices opinions of her own about Indian... |
| Publishing | Charlotte Brooke | Her father had cherished a never-executed project for a history of ancient Irish literature. Ashley, Leonard R. N., Aaron Crossley-Seymour, Charlotte Brooke, and Aaron Crossley-Seymour. “Introduction”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970, p. v - xv. vi |
Timeline
1784
The Asiatic Society
was founded by William Jones
in Calcutta: it was a group of Europeans seriously interested in learning more about the culture and learning of India.
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