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Vor 2 Tagen · Mary Shelley. Mary Wollstonecraft ( / ˈwʊlstənkræft /, also UK: /- krɑːft /; [1] 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. [2] [3] Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, received more ...
- 27 April 1759, Spitalfields, London, England
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- 10 September 1797 (aged 38), Somers Town, London, England
Website. rsliterature .org. The Royal Society of Literature ( RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, the RSL has about 600 Fellows, elected from among the best writers in any genre currently at work.
- 1820; 203 years ago
Vor 4 Tagen · Dickens's biographer Claire Tomalin regards him as the greatest creator of character in English fiction after Shakespeare. Dickensian characters are amongst the most memorable in English literature, especially so because of their typically whimsical names.
2. Mai 2024 · In the introduction, the biographer Claire Tomalin mentioned Claire and the ‘lost children’ of the Shelley-Byron circle. I had a hazy recollection of Claire from student days reading Shelley, but I had no idea about her afterlife, once Shelley had drowned, and Byron died.
16. Apr. 2024 · Stand back, you knaves, you buzzing flapdragons, give me leave to be private, by Cock’s death I’ll walk free or I’ll walk not at all. The only place I can find this online is from a mention in the Houses of Parliament, when The Lord Bishop of Hereford quoted it in 1973, saying that Macaulay had, in turn, quoted it.
17. Apr. 2024 · According to Claire Tomalin, Dorothea's biographer, Dorothea would have married Inchbald, so greatly was she in love with him, but that he never asked. Broken-hearted, she left him in 1786 to begin an affair with Sir Richard Ford, a police magistrate and a lawyer. She moved in with Ford when he promised to marry her. They had three ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Pepys letters to Montagu, at least some of them, have been published, and biographers Stephen Cootes and Claire Tomalin each quote from this one describing a riot on 5 December 1659 involving Hewson and his troops:
