Joseph Priestley

Standard Name: Priestley, Joseph

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Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
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...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
This work was controversial. William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
162-3
Mary Wollstonecraft quoted from Barbauld's Thoughts on the Devotional Taste in her own preface to The Female Reader...
Literary responses Mary Hays
William Frend had read the work in manuscript and been much pleased, though he took the liberty of suggesting a few revisions.
Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen.
244
Reviewers linked MH with Wollstonecraft, with results more often hostile than...
politics Harriet Martineau
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...
politics Amelia Opie
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.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books.
149
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
Anna Aikin (later ALB ) wrote On Mrs P— 's Leaving Warrington, one of her earliest important surviving poems, which she threw into the carriage that was to carry the Priestleys away to Joseph
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
A local newspaper, the Norwich Iris, published a letter from ALB in defence of Joseph Priestley .
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
369
Publishing Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP 's contributions to other periodicals include her article Everybody's Baby which appeared in Saint Pauls magazine in 1871.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
III: 377
In 1894 she published articles on her great-grandfather Joseph Priestley , on George Eliot
Residence Ann Gomersall
At some time after her marriage AG left London and settled in the industrial town of Leeds, far from her origins. Among manufacturing towns it had a remarkably lively cultural life. Joseph Priestley had...
Textual Features Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body.
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications.
49-50
She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...
Textual Features Harriet Martineau
After this came Cinnamon and Pearls, which treats imperialist exploitation in Ceylon,
Logan, Deborah Anna, and Harriet Martineau. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Illustrations of Political Economy, Broadview, p. various pages.
384
A Tale of the Tyne on press gangs, and Briery Creek.The hero of the last of these was a...
Textual Features Ann Radcliffe
Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
67
AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's niece wrote of her (with an echo of Pope on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xxviii
She herself, however, said it was Joseph Priestley
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
To the same year, probably, belong An Address to the Deity (a devotional poem written in response to Joseph Priestley 's preaching) and To Mrs. P[riestley], with some Drawings of Birds and Insects.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Anna Letitia Barbauld : Selected Poetry and Prose. Editors McCarthy, William and Elizabeth Kraft, Broadview.
41,44
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
For this her great support and encouragement was her brother (as he, rather than her husband , continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him...

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