Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Five years into her marriage and desperate to bring a pregnancy to term, she consulted the notorious alternative practitioner James Graham
(now brother-in-law of Catharine Macaulay
). She also adopted and took to her heart... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gilding | Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Harcourt | MH
's brother-in-law, Simon Harcourt, later the second earl
, was married to Elizabeth
, née Vernon, 1746-1826, who was a life-writer (like Mary), a social poet, and a collector of manuscript verse. This couple... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Scott | As a girl SS
had known the future Catharine Macaulay
; she retained a great respect for Macaulay's writings although she disagreed with her politics. Schellenberg, Betty. “Sarah Robinson Scott and the Republic of Letters”. Women in the Republic of Letters Conference, Saskatoon, SK, 4 Nov. 2000. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Carter | EC
associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Thomas Birch
, Moses Browne
, Richard Savage
, William
and John Duncombe |
Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | Newington Green was a fortunate place for MW
to have settled: it was a centre of intellectual Dissent. There she met the radical minister Richard Price
, the poet Samuel Rogers
, and the teacher... |
Friends, Associates | Mercy Otis Warren | MOW
began corresponding with Catharine Macaulay
during the 1760s, after Macaulay sent a copy of the first volume of her History of England to James Otis
. Their intellectual friendship developed further on Macaulay's visit... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Hutton | CH
's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney
and Robert Bage
, publisher Sir Richard Phillips
, Elizabeth Arnold
(whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay
, but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Bennett | Readers first encounter the young male protagonist, Henry Dellmore, bearing the nickname of Mumps, and suffering as a pupil at a Dickensian school, under the proprietor Mr Puffardo. Once taken up by benefactors, he... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Mary Wollstonecraft
, though she saw many virtues in this book, was not happy that Adelaide was educated to be obedient, not independent-minded: that with all her accomplishments she was ready to marry any body... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucy Aikin | Her model for this genre was Elizabeth Hamilton
, but the influence of Catharine Macaulay
is discerned by Karen O'Brien
in Aikin's Whig positioning and in her self-confidently judgemental tone. O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 218 |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Walker | The Monthly claims to find in the answering pamphlet sufficient internal evidence to identify the author, and that she stands ready to take up the anti-Burke stance recently maintained by Catharine Macaulay
. It identifies... |
Literary responses | Mary Whateley Darwall | John Langhorne
praised the volume in the Monthly Review with particular attention to the abilities of women for the tender and the natural; the reviewer for the Critical Review approved it because of the author's... |
Literary responses | Mary Hays | One of Jane Austen
's sisters-in-law owned a copy. Some reviewers objected both to content and arrangement. The European Review was not untypical in that although it expressed some admiration it also called for a... |