Le Breton, Philip Hemery, and Lucy Aikin. “Memoir”. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
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John Howard
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Standard Name: Howard, John,, 1726 - 1790
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Rochemont Barbauld
came from a French Huguenot family and had a strong foreign accent as a result of spending his childhood abroad. He was ALB
's junior by six years, small in stature, emotionally unstable... |
| Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | |
| Reception | Sarah Trimmer | ST
's work made a great impact. She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90. Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011–2013, 3 vols. |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Inchbald | This is set in Sumatra in the East Indies, ruled by renegade sultan (formerly a Christian). He has acquired the throne by accident, first forced to participate in rebellion, then to assume control when... |
| Textual Features | Lydia Maria Child | LMC
's first four subjects were all known for their writings and for their resistance to tyrannical authority, either political or religious, but she is more interested here in what she alleges to have been... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Holford | The novel was postdated 1794. A poem ostensibly written by the heroine is said to date from before the death (in February 1790) of John Howard
the prison reformer. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 615 Holford, Margaret, the elder. Selima; or, The Village Tale. Hookham; P. Broster, 1793, 6 vols. 2: 74-5 Howard had... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
enlarges on the terrible state of the Irish peasantry, with unemployment surpassing four million and many deaths from starvation. She comments on the Vagrancy Act of 21 June 1824; on the fact that prison... |
Timeline
1777: John Howard, with The State of the Prisons...
Building item
1777
John Howard
, with The State of the Prisons in England and Wales (printed by William Eyres
at Warrington and sold by Joseph Johnson
in London) initiated a movement for prison reform.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33. 517
1815: A woman called Miss Morgan printed a pamphlet...
Women writers item
1815
A woman called Miss Morgan
printed a pamphlet entitled The Gaol of the City of Bristol compared with what a Gaol ought to be: an indictment of prison conditions.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2025, Numbered catalogues.
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