Joseph Priestley

AL 's father, the Rev. James Brereton , vicar of Acton, grandson of a baron, married again and had four more daughters and another son. He had literary and scientific interests; but Joseph Priestley (an...

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

By August 1944 MBL had tenants in her London house, to protect it against burglary and bring in some rent. Since she employed no servant there, they got their own breakfast and ate their other...

MBL feared her brother would dislike this book because of his unworldliness, his unawareness of his own fame, and his remoteness from contemporary reality. With the public, however, it was an immediate success, and sold...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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 ,...