How to Create the Perfect Wife (68 page)

views on women,
48–49

See also specific writings

Roussel, Guillaume-François,
39
,
120
,
152

Ruxton, John/Margaret,
52
,
266

Sabrina.
See
Sidney, Sabrina
; Bicknell,

Sabrina Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de,
253–254

Sandford and Merton
(Day),
226–228
,
232
,
243
,
254–255
,
261

Saville, Elizabeth (Eliza)

marriage/children,
230
,
242

Sabrina and,
118
,
129
,
179
,
180
,
230
,
242

Saville, John

Anna Seward and,
117–118
,
129
,
147
,
158–159
,
161
,
165
,
259

background/music,
116–117
,
145
,
147
,
180
,
242

death,
259

grandson,
230

wife (Mary),
117
,
158
,
165
,
259

Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne,
123
,
126–127

Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, A
(Sterne),
82
,
150

Seward, Anna

attacks on Day,
245

Day’s letters from France,
155–158
,
161

Day’s makeover and,
159–160
,
166

Day’s wife-training plan and,
105–106
,
111–112
,
113–115
,
122
,
124
,
128–129
,
137
,
173
,
179–180
,
189
,
213
,
216
,
230

description/background,
103–106

Dying Negro, The
and,
171

Honora and,
104–105
,
107
,
112
,
114
,
131–132
,
133
,
137
,
138–139
,
140–141
,
144–145
,
146
,
165–166
,
220–221
,
245

John Saville and,
117–118
,
129
,
147
,
158–159
,
161
,
165
,
259

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

Sabrina (after Day’s rejection),
230
,
234
,
242
,
245

Seward, Elizabeth,
103
,
111

Seward, Sarah,
103
,
104–105

Seward, Thomas, Reverend,
103
,
110

Seward, William,
13
,
16
,
17
,
238
,
240
,
241

Shakespeare, William,
103

Sharp, Granville,
171–172

Shaw, George Bernard,
61–62
,
107
,
131
,
256
,
275

Shelley, Mary,
275

Shrewsbury,
54

Shrewsbury orphanage.
See
Foundling Hospital

Sidney, Sabrina

apprenticeship plan,
56
,
57–58
,
60
,
74–75

background,
56–58
,
59
,
60
,
63
,
66–69
,
70
,
71–75
,
79
,
101

Bicknell explaining Day’s plans,
235

Bicknell’s marriage proposal,
234–235

boarding house outside Birmingham,
196
,
206

on Day’s abuse,
232

Day’s decision between orphans,
99–100

Day’s decision to marry,
187–191
,
193–196
,
203

Day’s dismissal,
133–134

Day’s “justification,”
235–237

Day’s marriage proposal and,
193–196
,
197
,
237

Day’s will and,
229–230
,
234

description/personality,
5
6
,
76
,
99

dressmaking (mantua-making) apprenticeship, Lichfield,
178–181
,
186–187

Foundling Hospital records,
63
,
67
,
68–69
,
73

France and,
81–84
,
85–87
,
88–89
,
92–97
,
98–100

knowledge of Day’s plan and,
62–63
,
74
,
75
,
78
,
79
,
107
,
116
,
129–130
,
188–189
,
235

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

London visit,
59–60

physical/psychological abuse,
119–125
,
130
,
232
,
236

rebellion,
128–130
,
133–134

story in print,
130–131
,
253–25
6
,
257–261
,
267
,
268–271

Sutton Coldfield boarding school,
135–137
,
162
,
172–173

Wardley’s marriage proposal,
230–231

See also
Bicknell, Sabrina;
Day, Thomas and wife-training plan

Sidney, Sir Philip,
75

Slavery.
See
Antislavery movement

Small, William

background/description,
52
,
127–128

Day’s wife-training plan and,
52
,
83
,
127
,
128
,
131
,
180
,
186
,
203–204

death,
186
,
187

Lunar Society,
52
,
125
,
126
,
132
,
166
,
186

Smallpox inoculations,
21
,
100–101

Smith, Charlotte,
19

Smith, Eliza,
230
,
242

See also
Saville, Elizabeth (Eliza)

Smollett, Tobias,
89
,
211–212

Sneyd, Charlotte,
138
,
144

Sneyd, Edward (Major)

family,
104
,
144
,
146
,
164
,
221–222