Joseph Priestley

MAS adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In...

Early, informal response centred on the play's daring political message, which made SHR famous or notorious. People spoke of the play as Americans in Algiers or Slaves Released from Algiers.William Cobbett attacked her...

While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR ) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks , George Fordyce , Ralph Griffiths ,...

Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...

BRP 's great-grandfather, her mother's grandfather, was the famous Radical and Unitarian scientist Joseph Priestley , sometimes referred to as the father of modern chemistry.He and his wife, Mary Wilkinson Priestley

She formed a bond, too, with Madame Belloc's old friend Adelaide de Montgolfier , daughter of the balloon inventor Etienne de Montgolfier , who told her that her father's invention had been inspired by Joseph Priestley

BRP 's contributions to other periodicals include her article Everybody's Baby which appeared in Saint Pauls magazine in 1871. In 1894 she published articles on her great-grandfather Joseph Priestley , on George Eliot

She took the trials so seriously that she thought of emigrating with her father (as Joseph Priestley had already done) if they went against the defendants.

Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM addresses Joseph Priestley on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet on...

HM 's biographer R. K. Webb argues that her intellectual and political positions flowed quite logically from her family's business and religious interests: from a kind of radicalism typical of the industrial north. This gave...

Just at the point when she become a published author, HM 's questioning of her Unitarian faith was troubled by a desire to reconcile herself to God's power and benevolence. She found an...

After this came Cinnamon and Pearls, which treats imperialist exploitation in Ceylon,A Tale of the Tyne on press gangs, and Briery Creek.The hero of the last of these was a...

Though CM 's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray and Horace Walpole thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we...

CM was an Anglican with strong ties to Dissenting reformers. Her outspoken comments on religious matters made many people suppose that she was a sceptic, but this seems not to have been the case. Later...

MBL owned and took great care of a portrait of her great-grandfather Joseph Priestley .