Priscilla Wakefield
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Standard Name: Wakefield, Priscilla
Birth Name: Priscilla Bell
Married Name: Priscilla Wakefield
PW
's sixteen titles, begun at a time when she was past forty and spanning the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, were all published with the aim of improving the state of the world as well as making some income that was much needed by her family. She wrote, chiefly for young people, of scientific knowledge, of other countries, and of history, casting her works in dialogues, letters, or narrative. She also examined the condition of women.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Mary Louisa Molesworth | Educated privately at home, MLM
could not remember a time before she could read, nor any time when reading stories was not my greatest delight. Green, Roger Lancelyn. Mrs. Molesworth. Bodley Head, 1961. 21 |
Education | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
later remembered her responsibility, when very young, of escorting her two next younger brothers to their school. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | Springing from a distinguished Quaker family, MAS
had a large circle of cousins who made a name for themselves in one way or another. Her cousins included the writer Priscilla Wakefield
, and the sisters... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | The same year, 1840, JL
issued another book for children: The Young Naturalist's Journey: or the Travels of Agnes Merton with her Mama, a hybrid of entertainment and pedagogy in the style of Charlotte Smith |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | The fuller title was A Walk through Leicester, being a guide . . . containing a description of the town and its environs, with remarks upon it's [sic] history and antiquities. It was printed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Taken together, ALB
's various writings for children during her career as educator at Palgrave School
exerted enormous influence on other children's writers, such as Maria Edgeworth
, Sarah Trimmer
, Hannah More
, and... |
Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | Henry Fothergill Chorley
in the Athenæum faulted the book as being something close to a textbook under the guise of entertainment. Young people, he argued, resent such books as engines of oppression. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1788 (1862): 151 |
Textual Features | 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... |
Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as... |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | The many pictures in the volume include diagrams of the hold of a slave ship, I & Dash my Dog (a sketch), and prints of Hester Mulso Chapone
, Lady Rachel Russell
(with a copy... |
Textual Features | Lucy Aikin | This is a work of pedagogy in a form made familiar by Priscilla Wakefield
and others, combining history, geography, and adventure, with an overall strong narrative drive. Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge, 2011. 49 |
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... |
Timeline
12 March to 25 May 1644
In her husband
's absence the royalist Countess of Derby
, born a Huguenot Frenchwoman, successfully stood a siege at Lathom House in Lancashire (a towered and moated building).
8 December 1786
The Times (not yet using its final and best-known title) attributed the alleged rise in the number of prostitutes to the male takeover of traditionally female jobs (for example, milliner, dress-maker, stay-maker, and so on).
1805
George Nicholson
compiled and published at Poughnill near Ludlow in ShropshireThe Advocate and Friend of Woman, an anthology of excerpts.