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- catalog abstract ""Catharine Macaulay represented everything the eighteenth century abhorred in a woman. She was learned, politically-minded, actively engaged with public and philosophical issues of the day. Her private life, and especially her 'imprudent' second marriage to a man twenty-six years her junior, led to much malicious gossip. Yet in her lifetime she also won considerable fame. The author of an eight-volume history of England in the seventeenth century, a republican, a follower of John Wilkes, and a political polemicist who engaged with Edmund Burke, not only did she influence the nature of eighteenth-century radicalism in England, but she played an important contributory role in the shaping of American revolutionary ideology. Among her American friends and correspondents were Mercy Otis Warren, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Ezra Stiles and George Washington." "Long before the Revolution she was also closely concerned with events in France. Both Mirabeau and Brissot were familiar with her History and much influenced by it; translated into French it was welcomed by patriots as an effective response to the counter-revolutionary influence of Hume's history." "This is the first major biographical study of this remarkable and influential figure. For a woman to make such an impact in the restrictive environment of eighteenth-century England was astonishing: no one interested in the development of English radicalism or revolutionary politics can afford to ignore Catharine Macaulay."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b3611946.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""Catharine Macaulay represented everything the eighteenth century abhorred in a woman. She was learned, politically-minded, actively engaged with public and philosophical issues of the day. Her private life, and especially her 'imprudent' second marriage to a man twenty-six years her junior, led to much malicious gossip. Yet in her lifetime she also won considerable fame. The author of an eight-volume history of England in the seventeenth century, a republican, a follower of John Wilkes, and a political polemicist who engaged with Edmund Burke, not only did she influence the nature of eighteenth-century radicalism in England, but she played an important contributory role in the shaping of American revolutionary ideology. Among her American friends and correspondents were Mercy Otis Warren, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Ezra Stiles and George Washington." "Long before the Revolution she was also closely concerned with events in France. Both Mirabeau and Brissot were familiar with her History and much influenced by it; translated into French it was welcomed by patriots as an effective response to the counter-revolutionary influence of Hume's history." "This is the first major biographical study of this remarkable and influential figure. For a woman to make such an impact in the restrictive environment of eighteenth-century England was astonishing: no one interested in the development of English radicalism or revolutionary politics can afford to ignore Catharine Macaulay."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "vi, 263 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Republican virago.".
- catalog identifier "0198129785".
- catalog isFormatOf "Republican virago.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Republican virago.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "941.07/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "DA3.M25 H55 1992".
- catalog subject "Historians Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791.".
- catalog subject "Pamphleteers Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Republicanism Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Women Political activity Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog title "The republican virago : the life and times of Catharine Macaulay, historian / Bridget Hill.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".