How to Create the Perfect Wife (67 page)

Day’s will and,
230

family,
180
,
189

Lunar Society,
52
,
125
,
132
,
184
,
186

Sabrina’s wedding,
238

Kerr, Hugh,
70–71

Kildare, Emily, Duchess of Leinster,
40

Kingston, Ann.
See
Sidney, Sabrina
Knights Templar,
27

Ladies of Llangollen,
105

Lane, Richard James,
272

“Laura” and Petrarch/poetry,
24–25
,
87

Laurens, Henry,
184–185
,
223

Laurens, John,
184–185

Leigh Hunt, Henry,
227

Leonora,
23
,
25
,
77

Levasseur, Thérèse,
36
,
37
,
86
,
151
,
207

Lichfield

Sabrina in,
105–106
,
107–112
,
114
,
115
,
116
,
118–125
,
126–130
,
131
,
133

See also specific individuals;
Stowe House, Lichfield

Locke, John,
19
,
37
,
39

Lowndes, Milnes,
201–202
,
216

Lowndes, Robert,
200
,
201–202

Lowndes, Thomas,
201–202
,
213
,
216

Lucretia.
See
Car, Dorcas (Lucretia)

Lunar Society of Birmingham,
31
,
46
,
51–52
,
123
,
125–127
,
166
,
173
,
180
,
184
,
186
,
231–232
,
268

Lycurgus,
12

“Macaronis,”
150

Mackenzie, Henry,
150

Magee, Samuel,
57
,
58

Mandeville, Bernard,
19

Mansfield, Lord/ruling,
172

Mantua-making (dressmaking),
178

Marquis de Sade,
79
,
121

Marriage

legal age,
54

See also
Women’s status

Marriage Act (1753),
68

Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin
(Seward),
257–260
,
261

Middle Temple Inn,
13
,
18
,
27
,
5
1
,
53
,
170–171
,
174
,
176
,
184
,
206
,
232
,
239

Milnes, Esther

background,
199–200

brother-in-law and,
199
,
201–202

Day examining,
209–211

description/personality,
200–201
,
202–205

friends and,
200–201

inheritance and,
199–200
,
204
,
211
,
216

meeting Day/early relationship,
203–206

sister (Elizabeth),
200
,
201

suitors,
199
,
201
,
202–203
,
217–218

See also
Day, Esther

Milnes, Richard,
199–200

Milton, John,
75
,
103
“Monimia” name,
67

Montagu, Elizabeth,
185

Montagu, Mary Wortley,
21

Musical Travels Through England
(Bicknell and Day),
183
,
239

My Fair Lady,
62

Napoleon Bonaparte,
257

Nelson, Admiral,
261

Nollekens, Joseph,
249

Ode for the New Year
(Day),
206

Orley Farm
(Trollope),
255–256

Orphan Hospital at Shrewsbury.
See
Foundling Hospital

Ovid and Pygmalion story,
61
,
62
,
275

Oxford University

decline in standards,
14–15

See also
Day, Thomas/Oxford University

Palterton Hall,
200
,
201

Panckoucke, Charles-Joseph,
161

Paris

burning books,
17

Day/Edgeworths and,
15
1–153

Day’s/orphans’ visit,
81
,
82–85

fashion,
89
,
190

Rousseau and,
37
,
86
,
151–153
,
207

Parker, Mary,
118–119
,
129
,
180

Parkinsons

background,
178
,
187

Sabrina and,
178
,
179
,
181
,
186–187

Penfold, Mary/family,
69
,
70
,
71
,
72

Petrarca (Petrarch), Francesco,
24
,
87

Phillips, Jane.
See
Day, Jane

Phillips, Thomas

background,
11

as Day’s stepfather,
10–11
,
53
,
84
,
106

Piozzi, Hester.
see
Thrale, Hester

Ponsonby, Sarah,
105

Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls,

Prostitution,
53–54

Pygmalion myth,
61–62
,
97–98
,
107
,
131
,
156
,
196
,
256
,
274
,
275

Pygmalion
(Rousseau),
62

Pygmalion
(Shaw),
61–62
,
107
,
131
,
256
,
275

Reynolds, Joshua,
39

Richardson, Samuel,
19

Robinson, Richard George, Reverend,
122–123
,
124

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

background/ideas,
4
,
35
,
37–40
,
83
,
150
,
162
,
171
,
243

Day/Edgeworths visit,
152–153

death,
217

Dying Negro, The
(Day and Bicknell) and,
177
,
182
,
206
,
207–208

Galatea and,
62
,
98

in hiding,
35–36
,
40
,
86

his children,
3
7

ideas on education,
37–40

personality,
36

return to France,
150–15
1