Hays, Mary. Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous. T. Knott, 1793.
prelims
John Disney
Standard Name: Disney, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Mary Hays | The publisher was Knott
. The title-page quotes Socrates
and Burns
. The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney
. MH
's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | Among her early mentors MH
numbered Robert Robinson
, William Frend
(whose friendship she owed to her first book publication), and George Dyer
. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993. 82 |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Jebb | She retained close relationships after her husband's death with the friends they had made together: Thomas Brand Hollis
, John Disney
, Capel Lofft
, James Lambert
, Henry Constantine Jennings
, John Cartwright
... |
| Literary responses | Ann Jebb | Disney
observed that AJ
's arguments were pointed, and were felt as such by Powell. Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, 1787, pp. 1: 1 - 227. 81n |
| Textual Features | Ann Jebb | Two days after the Tory Duke of Portland
became Prime Minister, AJ
wrote to John Disney
, The Times of today begins to be afraid of peace: still I cry nothing but peace can save... |
| Textual Production | Ann Jebb | A Letter to the Author of the Proposal for the Establishment of Public Examinations is generally named as AJ
's earliest, anonymous tract. But John Disney
names the first as A Letter to the Author... |
| Textual Production | Ann Jebb | Before William Paley
published The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, 1785, AJ
wrote some material for him to read about her views of falsehood as the root of all evil. Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, pp. 597 - 604, 661. 670 |
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