Jane Marcet

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Standard Name: Marcet, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Haldimand
Married Name: Jane Marcet
JM was a prolific early-nineteenth-century scientific populariser and later a children's writer. Her textbooks on specialised fields of science and on political economy (designed for school-age girls, but much used by professional men) take the form of dialogues between a female teacher and her students. They represent a marked advance in expectations for the education of women. They and her other pedagogic books for the young were for decades among the most widely used of their day in Britain and North America, and were popular also in translation on the Continent and in many later revisions and adaptations.

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Martineau
Among her subjects are Lady Byron (an occasion for HM to deplore Byron 's conduct and influence), Mary Berry , Mary Russell Mitford , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Marcet , Amelia Opie , Mary Somerville
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Melesina Trench
About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT 's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event.
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn.
18
Later pages mix letters...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Grant
Her range of curiosity of wide. Of orthodox Jews she writes, Is not priestcraft the same in all climes, in all ages, in all forms of worship?
Grant, Elizabeth. The Highland Lady in Ireland. Editors Pelly, Patricia and Andrew Tod, Canongate.
96
She believes that politically disturbing plays ought...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
The British Library possesses only the Boston, Massachusetts, edition of HM 's French Wines and Politics, while the five copies of the London edition listed by OCLC WorldCat are all in the USA...
Textual Features Jane Loudon
Her title (in full: Conversations upon Comparative Chronology and General History, from the Creation of the World to the Birth of Christ) declares her affiliation with Jane Marcet , a science writer for young...
Textual Features Lydia Maria Child
Its dialogue form (two children talk with Aunt Maria) followed English models like Jane Marcet and Priscilla Wakefield , but much of its material (about slaves, Indians, local botany) is distinctively American. Historical novels are...
Reception Margaret Bryan
MB 's work met with approval and admiration from scientist Charles Hutton .
Phillips, Patricia. The Scientific Lady. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
177
Her reputation as a science writer no doubt accounted for the mistaken attribution to her of the eighth edition of Jane Marcet
Reception Priscilla Wakefield
This work was praised in the Critical Review two years after publication.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 30 (1800): 453-6
It is one of the books which have secured her a place (along with Jane Marcet and others)...
Literary responses Caroline Herschel
Late in Herschel's long life the honours showered upon her generally recognised her as a woman scientist. By 1842 young ladies at or near Augusta, Georgia, USA, had formed a Caroline Herschel Association —and...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
The Illustrations catapulted HM into fame: she was lionized by London society. She received flattering responses from Coleridge and from her precursor as a political economist, Jane Marcet .
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
212, 214
Christian Isobel Johnstone in...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Martineau
HM had been surprised, on encountering Jane Marcet 's Conversations of Political Economy in autumn 1827, to discover that she herself had been teaching political economy unawares in two early stories, The Rioters and The...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Martineau
According to HM 's Autobiography, she drew inspiration for the setting and heroine of a later story (The Hamlets, part of Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated) from seeing William Collins 's...
Friends, Associates Jane Loudon
As well as horticultural and artistic friends and associates, JL and her husband had literary friends, who included Robert Chambers and his wife Anne , Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Howitt , Julia Kavanagh , Charles Dickens
Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
Aikin knew not only the science writer Jane Marcet , but also several of her family. She wrote of her pleasure in the company of Marcet and her daughter. She mentioned a literary project of...

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Texts

Marcet, Jane. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806. Editor Rossotti, Hazel, AuthorHouse, 2006.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations for Children: on Land and Water. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Chemistry. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Natural Philosophy. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Political Economy. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Political Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on the Evidences of Christianity. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Vegetable Physiology. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829.
Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, 2006, p. i - xxi.
Marcet, Jane. John Hopkins’s Notions on Political Economy. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833.
Marcet, Jane. Mrs. Marcet’s Story-Book. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858.
Marcet, Jane. Rich and Poor. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.
Marcet, Jane. Stories for Young Children. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1831.
Marcet, Jane. The Mother’s First Book. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845.
Marcet, Jane. The Seasons, Stories for Very Young Children. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833.