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Cultural formation | Catherine Hutton | CH
grew up in a Dissenting
family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Maria Falconbridge | Thomas Clarkson
, historian of the slave trade, had interviewed Falconbridge (as an important witness) about his four different voyages as a surgeon to the coast of Africa, his personal experience of the barbarity... |
Health | Mary Lamb | Mary Lamb
had another bout of mental illness; this one interrupted both her summer holiday with Thomas Clarkson
's family and her writing of Mrs Leicester's School. Bottoms, Janet. “Every One Her Own Heroine: Conflicting Narrative Structures in Mrs Leicesters SchoolWomens Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, 2000, pp. 39-53. 40 Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003. 240-1 |
politics | Catherine Hutton | CH
wrote in her diary in 1783, a propos of slavery, I do not love the Americans. qtd. in Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895. 85 Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895. 144 |
politics | Elizabeth Heyrick | The abolitionist cause was nothing new to EH
when she stepped forth an advocate for it: her parents and her siblings all supported it. Her mother was an admirer of Thomas Clarkson
, and she... |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III
fell ill, probably... |
Travel | Mary Lamb |
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