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INDEX
Addenbrooke, John, 158
Alexander the Great, 20
American independence
British and, 170, 176–177, 184, 185,
195–196, 206
Day’s support for, 206, 223
John André and, 139
peace treaty, 223
André, John, 138–139, 166
Animal rights, 174, 243
Anningsley Park, 224, 243, 244
Annual Review, 260, 261
Antislavery movement
British legislation, 171–172
Buxton and, 262
Day and, 170–171, 172, 178, 184, 206
hypocrisy and, 170–171, 172, 185
Lunar Society and, 184
writings on, 169–171, 172, 239
See also Dying Negro, The (Day and Bicknell)
Apothecaries, 230–231
Aston, Elizabeth, 119
Austen, Jane, 225
Avignon
Day and orphans, 87–97, 100, 101
history, 88
Barehill, 11, 32, 50, 53, 87, 106, 243
Bath, 211–212
Beaufort, Frances Anne (Edgeworth), 263, 266
Belinda (Maria Edgeworth), 253–254, 268
Bentley, Thomas
Day’s wedding, 212
Franklin club and, 174, 175, 176, 184, 206–207
Rousseau and, 207–208
Bicknell, Henry Edgeworth
Burney Club, 262–263
childhood, 238, 239, 247, 252, 256
death, 274
description, 263–264, 273
marriages/children, 263–264, 274
Bicknell, John
background, 13, 26
career, 13, 26, 170, 233–234, 238
Charterhouse, 13
Day’s wife-training plan and, 26, 28, 50, 53, 54, 56, 57–58, 78–79, 101, 106, 130, 233–234, 235, 240
death, 239
friendship with Day, 13–14, 16–17, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27–28, 49–51, 50–51, 53, 181, 212, 233
lifestyle, 26–28, 233, 239, 243
marriage proposal, 234–235
Middle Temple, 18, 26–28
mother and Sabrina, 101, 106, 240
opposing orphanage music lessons, 182–184, 239, 241
selecting orphan for Day, 54, 56, 57–58, 233
wedding/marriage, 237–239
See also Dying Negro, The (Day and Bicknell)
Bicknell, John Laurens
Burney Club and, 262–263
childhood, 238, 239, 247, 252, 256
death, 2 74
description, 261, 264, 265, 273, 274
marriage/children, 263, 264, 274
mother’s background and, 257–260, 261, 269, 270, 271
Bicknell, Maria, 264–265
Bickn
ell, Mary, 263
Bicknell, Sabrina
Bicknell family and, 240, 241–242, 264
Burney family and, 247, 248–252, 256, 258, 259, 261–262, 265, 267–268, 271
death, 2 73
Edgeworth memoirs, 267, 268–271
Edgeworth relationship, 240, 25 1, 263, 264, 265–266, 267
following husband’s death, 239–243, 244
grandchildren, 263, 271, 273, 274
life summary, 273–274
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin (Seward) and, 257–260, 261
portrait, 271–272
retirement, 271–272, 273
wedding/marriage, 237–239, 258
will, 273
See also Sidney, Sabrina
Bicknell, Sarah, 240
Birmingham, 31, 52, 125, 127, 136, 166, 188, 196, 203, 206, 208, 229, 230, 231, 232, 237, 242
Boston Tea Party (1773), 176
Boswell, James, 27, 36, 238
Boulton, Matthew
background/business, 52, 125–126, 184, 208, 212, 214, 222
Day relationship, 209, 212, 243
Lunar Society, 32, 52, 125, 186, 209
British culture and social history (eighteenth century)
divorce, 117–118
female relationships, 105
gender double standards, 194, 234
ideal Georgian gentleman, 148–150
illegitimacy, 68, 258–259
marriage permission, 211
religion, 175
treatment of children/animals, 124, 174
unmarried women-men relationships, 109–110
widowhood, 240
See also Women’s status
Brooke, Henry, 150
Burney, Charles (1757–1817)
background, 183, 184, 241, 247–248
death, 267
retirement from school, 264
Sabrina and, 247, 248–252, 256
Sabrina’s sons and, 241, 243, 247, 252, 256
Burney, Charles Parr/family, 264, 265, 267–268, 271, 273
Burney Club, 262–263
Burney family and Sabrina, 247, 248–252, 256, 258, 259, 261–262, 265, 267–268, 271
Burney, Fanny
husband, 254–255
Sabrina and, 242, 247, 248, 249, 250, 255, 272
Sabrina’s story, 255
as writer, 19, 109–110, 182, 254–255
Burney, Frances Anne (Fannittina), 267–268
Burney, Sarah (Rosette), 248, 249, 250
Burney, Sarah Harriet, 248, 249
Burney School
closing/demolition of, 272
description, 249, 250–252, 261–263, 264, 265
famous pupils, 262
pupil protests, 262
Burney, Susan Sabrina, 268, 273
Butler, Eleanor, 105
Butler, Monimia, 67, 75, 273
See also Sidney, Sabrina; Bicknell, Sabrina
Buxton, Thomas Fowell, 262
Cadogan, William, 70
Cambridge University, 14, 241, 247, 251
Car, Dorcas (Lucretia)
apprenticeship after Day, 101
background, 76, 77, 79, 100–101
contract agreement and, 101
Day selecting, 76–77
description/personality, 76, 99
France and, 81–84, 85–87, 88–89, 92–97, 98–100
life/training with Day, 77–78
marriage, 101
See also Day, Thomas and wife-training plan
Carter, Elizabeth, 22
Casewell, Ann/family, 72
Charterhouse School, 11–13
children’s literature by Thomas Day, 224–225, 226–228, 232, 243
Clerkenwell, 66, 67–68, 70, 77
Club of Thirteen, 175, 184, 206–208
Confessions (Rousseau), 86, 152, 217
Constable, John, 264–265, 271
Constable, Maria. See Bicknell, Maria
Cooke, Susanna, 138
Coram, Thomas, 63, 65
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 15, 29
Crusius, Lewis, 12
D’Arblay, Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Piochard, 254–255
Darwin, Charles, 36, 118–119, 208
Darwin, Erasmus
background, 31–32, 39, 52, 110–111, 230
children, 118–119, 160, 180, 208, 259
Day’s biography and, 246
Day’s wife-training plan and, 106, 110–111, 113, 144, 244
Edgeworth and, 31–32, 46, 132, 145
education of children, 126
Elizabeth Hall and, 208
Lunar Society, 31–32, 51, 52, 125, 126, 127, 174, 184
Mary Parker and, 118–119, 129, 180
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin (Seward), 257–260, 261
Rousseau and, 35, 36
Sewards and, 104, 158
wife, 115–116
Wright and, 113
Davenport, Davies, 40
Davenport, Phoebe, 40, 44
Davenport, Richard/grandchildren, 36, 40, 44
Day, Esther
death, 246
description/personality, 214
husband’s biography and, 245, 246
husband’s death and, 243–244
married life, 213–220, 222, 224, 225, 237, 243, 2 75
Sabrina’s allowance and, 244–245
wedding/honeymoon, 212–213
See also Milnes, Esther
Day, Jane
Esther Day and, 218, 219
personality/background, 10, 11
relationship with son, 10–11, 53, 84, 106, 181, 182
remarriage, 10–11
Day, Thomas
American independence and, 206, 223
antislavery movement, 170–171, 172, 178, 184, 206
biographies, 245–247, 252, 254, 267, 270
charity and, 3, 18, 19–20, 34, 41, 223–224, 240, 244, 269
children’s books, 224–225, 226–228, 232, 243
death, 243
Edgeworth home visit (1768), 1–5, 45–47
education of Dick Edgeworth and, 41, 42, 43, 44–46
etiquette and fashion, 2–3, 4, 13, 16, 20–21, 24, 50–51, 83, 85, 89–91, 98, 112, 150–151, 160–161, 178, 179
on Honora, 132–133
human rights and, 3, 10, 170–171, 172, 173–174, 178, 184, 206
influences (summary), 4, 12
on love, 4–5, 16, 18, 23, 24, 25, 33, 50, 148
Lunar Society, 5 1, 52, 125–126, 173–174, 184
makeover in France, 151, 153, 155–160
monologues, 3, 16, 33–34, 46, 97, 112, 126, 141, 146, 147
paintings by Wright, 112–113
personal hygiene and, 2, 3
personality, 2–3, 20–21, 23, 33, 91, 114, 126, 175, 182, 224, 240, 244
physical description, 2, 20, 112
rejection by Elizabeth Hall, 208–209
stepfather and, 10–11, 16, 53
will, 229–230, 244
See also potential wives
Day, Thomas and wife-training plan
attacks on, 235–237, 245, 253–254, 260–261
biography and, 245–248
contract regarding orphans, 78–79, 97, 101, 115, 130
decision on future wife, 98–100
description of perfect woman, 22–23, 25, 54, 97, 98
Émile and, 49, 83, 85–86, 93, 94, 109, 119–120, 121–122, 127, 137, 189, 190, 191
ethics (summary), 53, 79, 275
inheritance and, 53
“love” and, 4–5, 16, 25
peasant women, 23–24, 26
poems of, 24–25
relationship with mother and, 10–11, 16
stoicism/isolated life and, 4, 6, 21, 25, 140, 141, 143–144, 213–220, 222, 223–225, 243
today’s view of, 275
See also potential wives
Day, Thomas and wife-training plan/France
Avignon, 87–97, 100, 101
Day’s rec
klessness, 86–87
Day’s views of French, 82–83, 84, 85, 90, 91–92
Edgeworth correspondence, 87–88, 90–91, 92–93, 95
isolating orphans, 83, 89
leaving/return to England, 101
in Paris, 82–85
reasons for trip, 83–84, 89
travel to France, 81–82
travel to Lyon, 85–87
Day, Thomas childhood
birth, 10
boxing, 12–13
Charterhouse School, 11–13
description/personality, 9–10, 11, 12, 13
father, 10
inheritance, 10
question to vicar, 9–10
relationship with mother, 10–11, 16
smallpox and, 2, 11
Stoke Newington boarding school, 11
Day, Thomas/Oxford University
description/life, 3, 14, 15–20, 18, 51
education and, 14, 15, 17–20
influences, 17–20
inheritance and, 15, 20, 23, 41
law studies, 1, 5, 18, 51, 170, 171, 206, 222
leaving, 41
Leonora, 23, 25, 77
stoicism and, 15–16
walking trips, 23–26
women and, 5, 16, 20, 21, 22–23, 25
De Luc, Françoise-Antoinette (Fanny), 231–232
De Luc, Jean André, 231
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon), 14
Delaval, Sir Francis Blake, 31, 34, 79
Denning, Stephen Poyntz, 271–272
Devoted Legions, The (Day), 206
Dickens, Charles, 227
Dickinson, John, 170
Dictionnaire Philosophique (Voltaire), 17–18
Diderot, Denis, 98
Dying Negro, The (Day and Bicknell)
credit for, 169–170, 239
dedication to Rousseau and, 177, 182, 206, 207–208
description/effects, 169–170, 172, 176, 177–178, 184, 204, 206, 254
rights to, 182
Edgeworth, Anna (child), 163, 192
Edgeworth, Anna Maria
background, 29
Day and, 34, 142, 162
death, 163
France visit, 159
marriage/children, 29–30, 33, 34, 40, 45, 91, 131, 132, 139, 141–142, 145, 151, 162, 163
Edgeworth, Dick
as adult, 225
birth, 28, 29, 151
boarding-school education, 154–155, 165, 191, 225
education experiment and, 40–46, 91, 93, 114, 120, 142, 151, 152–155, 225
in France, 151, 152–155
inventions and, 43
leaving father, 225
Edgeworth, Emmeline, 131, 142, 159, 192
Edgeworth, Elizabeth. See Sneyd, Elizabeth
Edgeworth, Honora
illness/death, 219–220
marriage/children, 164–165, 166, 191–192, 219–220, 226