William Smellie

01 January 1740 - 01 January 1795

Standard Name: Smellie, William,, 1740 - 1795

Connections

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Friends, Associates	Maria Riddell	As a friend rather than a lover, Burns was crucially helpful to MR . He first put her in touch with the printer, intellectual, and naturalist William Smellie , who published her work and became...
Literary responses	Maria Riddell	William Smellie (himself a naturalist and translator of Buffon) was not interested in MR 's poems but he expressed enthusiasm for her ingenious and judicious work of science, minute observation, [and] accurate description, which...
Textual Production	Maria Riddell	Robert Burns helped her to achieve publication, writing to the Edinburgh printer and man of letters William Smellie on 22 January 1792 that her poems were always correct and sometimes elegant, very much beyond the...
Travel	Maria Riddell	Early in their Scottish life, MR and her husband visited Edinburgh to meet the printer and man of letters William Smellie . Their several visits to London included nearly two months in autumn 1793, which...

Timeline

1749

The philosophe Buffon began publishing his Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, one of the great Enlightenment collaborative projects for the advancement of learning.

O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

8 June 1768

A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland

English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

issued proposals for printing by subscription a work to be called Encyclopædia Britannica, to be edited by the man of letters William Smellie .

English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1780

Man of letters William Smellie published an English translation of Buffon 's famous Natural History.

British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

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