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George Robinson (1737–1801)
George Robinson (bapt. 20 December 1736 – 6 June 1801) was an English bookseller and publisher working in London. Robinson published ''The Lady's Magazine'' and a serial reference work, '' The New Annual Register'', as well as fiction and non-fiction. He was also known for publishing books written by women. Life Robinson was baptised at Dalston, Cumberland, in December 1736,Henry Richard Tedder, "Robinson, George", in ''Dictionary of National Biography'', 1885-1900, Volume 49 and about 1755 migrated to London in search of work. John Nichols later said that Robinson came with "a decent education, and a great share of natural sense and shrewdness." John Nichols, ''Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century'', vol. 3pp. 445–448 He was an assistant to John Rivington (1720–1792), a publisher in St Paul's Churchyard, and later worked for a Mr. Johnstone on Ludgate Hill. In about 1763 he and a friend, John Roberts, went into business in Paternoster Row as booksellers. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady's Magazine
image:Fashion Plate (London Fashionable Walking Dresses) LACMA M.86.266.104.jpg, 1795–1820 in Western fashion#Women's fashion, London Regency-fashionable Walking Dresseses, often referred to as Promenade Dresses, July 1812, including a Spencer (clothing), spencer ''The Lady's Magazine; or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement'', was an early British women's magazine published monthly from 1770 until 1847. Priced at Sixpence (British coin)#Cultural significance, sixpence per copy, it began publication in August 1770 by the London bookseller John Coote (bookseller), John Coote and the publisher John Wheble, later, George Robinson (bookseller). It featured articles on fiction, poetry, fashion, music, and social gossip and was, according to the Victoria and Albert Museum, "the first woman's magazine to enjoy lasting success." The magazine claimed a wikt:readership, readership of 16,000, a figure that has been considered high when c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist who pioneered the Gothic fiction, Gothic novel, and a minor poet. Her fourth and most popular novel, ''The Mysteries of Udolpho'', was published in 1794. She is also remembered for ''The Romance of the Forest'' (1791) and ''The Italian (Radcliffe novel), The Italian'' (1797). Her novels combine suspenseful narratives, exotic historical settings, and apparently-supernatural events which turn out to have rational explanations. Radcliffe was famously shy and reclusive, leaving little record of the details of her life. She was born in London to a middle-class family, and was raised between Bath, Somerset and the estate of her uncle Thomas Bentley (manufacturer), Thomas Bentley. In 1787, she married William Radcliffe, a journalist, and moved to London. She published five novels between 1789 and 1797 to increasing acclaim and financial success, becoming one of the highest-paid authors of the eighteent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Of Dilettanti
The Society of Dilettanti (founded 1734) is a British society of noblemen and scholars that sponsored the study of ancient Greek and Roman art, and the creation of new work in the style. History Though the exact date is unknown, the Society is believed to have been established as a gentlemen's club in 1734 by a group of people who had been on the Grand Tour. Records of the earliest meeting of the society were written somewhat informally on loose pieces of paper. The first entry in the first minute book of the society is dated 5 April 1736. For a number of years it held its meetings at the Thatched House Tavern in St James's. In 1743, Horace Walpole condemned its affectations and described it as "... a club, for which the nominal qualification is having been in Italy, and the real one, being drunk: the two chiefs are Lord Middlesex and Sir Francis Dashwood, who were seldom sober the whole time they were in Italy." The group, initially led by Francis Dashwood, contained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The History And Present State Of Electricity
''The History and Present State of Electricity'' (1767), by eighteenth-century British polymath Joseph Priestley, is a survey of the study of electricity up until 1766, as well as a description of experiments by Priestley himself. Background Priestley became interested in electricity while he was teaching at Warrington Academy. Friends introduced him to the major British experimenters in the field: John Canton, William Watson, and Benjamin Franklin. These men encouraged Priestley to perform the experiments he was writing about in his history; they believed that he could better describe the experiments if he had performed them himself. In the process of replicating others' experiments, however, Priestley became intrigued by the still unanswered questions regarding electricity and was prompted to design and undertake his own experiments. Priestley possessed an electrical machine designed by Edward Nairne. With his brother Timothy he designed and constructed his own machines ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley (; 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, Unitarian, Natural philosophy, natural philosopher, English Separatist, separatist theologian, Linguist, grammarian, multi-subject educator and Classical liberalism, classical liberal Political philosophy, political theorist. He published over 150 works, and conducted experiments in several areas of science. Priestley is credited with his independent discovery of oxygen by the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide, having isolated it in 1774. During his lifetime, Priestley's considerable scientific reputation rested on his invention of carbonated water, his writings on electricity, and his discovery of several "airs" (gases), the most famous being what Priestley dubbed "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen). Priestley's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution eventually left him isolated within the scientific community. Priestley's science was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise '' The Prince'' (), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is also important to historians and scholars of Italian correspondence. He worked as secretary to the second chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power. After his death Machiavelli's name came to evoke unscrupulous acts of the sort he advised most famously in his work, ''The Prince''. He concerned himself with the ways a ruler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Chandler (antiquary)
Richard Chandler (1737 – 9 February 1810) was an English antiquary. Education Chandler was born in Elson, Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester College. He matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1755. He moved to Magdalen College as a demy in 1757, and graduated B.A. there in 1759, M.A. 1761.Some of his correspondence is in the Magdalen archives. Early work His first work consisted of fragments from the minor Greek poets, with notes (''Elegiaca Graeca'', 1759); and in 1763 he published a fine edition of the inscriptions among the Arundel marbles, ''Marmora Oxoniensia'', with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for supplying the lacunae. Antiquarian work In 1764 he was introduced by Robert Wood, who had produced the ''Ruins of Palmyra'' to the Society of Dilettanti and sent by them, accompanied by Nicholas Revett, an architect, and William Pars, a painter, to explore the antiquities of Ionia and Greece (1764-1766). The Society's brief, drawn up 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Timbury
Jane Timbury (died c. 1792), was an English novelist and poet whose books were published between 1770 and 1791. Work Timbury’s novel ''The Male-coquette'' (1770) appeared anonymously, but was republished in 1788 as ''The Male Coquet'' with Timbury’s name added to the title page. It has been called an attempt to bring together various strains and resolve them into a new ideal of husband and gentleman. Timbury’s ''The story of Le Fevre, from the works of Mr. Sterne'' (1787) attempted to increase the drama of Laurence Sterne's work by putting it into verse, but has been judged to “contort Tristram’s spontaneous profession of whimsicality into pedestrian metre and verse”. Her book of verse, ''The History of Tobit'', self-published in 1787, included a long list of subscribers, among whom were Samuel Arnold and Jeremy Bentham.''The History of Tobit; a Poem. With Other Poems on Various Subjects'' (Westminster: The Author, 1787)p. ix/ref> Life Little is known of Timbury. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Observations Made During A Voyage Round The World (in H
Observation in the natural sciences is an act or instance of noticing or perceiving and the acquisition of information from a primary source. In living beings, observation employs the senses. In science, observation can also involve the perception and recording of data via the use of scientific instruments. The term may also refer to any data collected during the scientific activity. Observations can be qualitative, that is, the absence or presence of a property is noted and the observed phenomenon described, or quantitative if a numerical value is attached to the observed phenomenon by counting or measuring. Science The scientific method requires observations of natural phenomena to formulate and test hypotheses. It consists of the following steps: # Ask a question about a phenomenon # Make observations of the phenomenon # Formulate a hypothesis that tentatively answers the question # Predict logical, observable consequences of the hypothesis that have not yet been investigated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Annual Register (1780, London)
The New Annual Register (subtitled, "Or General Repository of History, Politics and Literature for the Year...") was an annual reference work, founded in 1780 by Andrew Kippis in London, England. It recorded and analysed the year's major events, developments and trends, throughout the world, as a rival to the ''Annual Register'' appearing from 1758, under the editorship of Edmund Burke. After Kippis died in 1795 it was taken on by Thomas Morgan (1752–1821). George Gregory edited it, and changed its Whig politics to Tory at the time of the Addington ministry. It was published until 1825. The ''Register'' was published by George Robinson from 1781. From 1784 to 1791 William Godwin William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most famous fo ... was writing the British historical section.Marken. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streatham
Streatham ( ) is a district in south London, England. Centred south of Charing Cross, it lies mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, with some parts extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth. Streatham was in Surrey before becoming part of the County of London in 1889, and then Greater London in 1965. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Streatham means "the hamlet on the street". The street in question, the London to Brighton Way, was the Roman road from the capital Londinium to the south coast near Portslade, today within Brighton and Hove. It is likely that the destination was a Roman port now lost to coastal erosion, which has been tentatively identified with 'Novus Portus' mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia (Ptolemy), Geographia. The road is confusingly referred to as Stane Street (Chichester), Stane Street (Stone Street) in some sources and diverges from the main London-Chichester road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
