Joseph Collyer

Standard Name: Collyer, Joseph,, the elder

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death Mary Collyer
MC died of a lingering illness which her husband attributed to agitation of mind
qtd. in
Marivaux, Pierre de. “Introduction”. The Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne, Countess of *****, edited by William Harlin McBurney and Michael F. Shugrue, translated by. Mary Collyer, Southern Illinois University Press, 1965, p. xi - xliv.
xxviii
brought on by her translation from Gessner .
qtd. in
Marivaux, Pierre de. “Introduction”. The Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne, Countess of *****, edited by William Harlin McBurney and Michael F. Shugrue, translated by. Mary Collyer, Southern Illinois University Press, 1965, p. xi - xliv.
xxviii
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Collyer
Mary Mitchell married, at a City of London church, Joseph Collyer , who worked as a bookseller and an author, and had bought the marriage licence that same day.
Culshaw, Geoff. Geoff’s Genealogy. 21 Feb. 2009, http://www.geoffsgenealogy.co.uk/index.htm.
Publishing Mary Collyer
The full title was Felicia to Charlotte. Being Letters from a Young Lady in the Country, to Her Friend in Town. Containing a series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections, Chiefly Tending...
Textual Production Mary Collyer
MC 's translation from the German of Frederick Klopstock 's The Messiah was posthumously published by her husband .
Feminist Companion Archive.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Mary Collyer
Joseph Collyer completed this unfinished work after his wife died. Like her previous translation, it was described on its title-page as Attempted from the German.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
It went through a large number of editions. In 1821...

Timeline

1749: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der...

Writing climate item

1749

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der Messias, a religious poem in three cantos.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 429

January 1761: Joseph Collyer, husband of the writer Mary...

Building item

January 1761

Joseph Collyer , husband of the writer Mary Collyer , published The Parents & Guardians Directory, and the Youth's Guide, in the Choice of a Profession or Trade.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
91
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
11: 166
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
(January 1761)

Texts

Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb. The Messiah. Translators Collyer, Mary and Joseph, the elder Collyer, R. and J. Dodsley, 1763.