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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00808-3 - Religious Dissent and the Aikin–Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860 Edited by Felicity James and Ian Inkster Index More information Index Academy for young ladies (Barbauld) 199 Allen, William 133 Act of Uniformity (1662) 29 America 62, 111, 116, 124 n 86, 156 Adam as a moping idiot (Lucy Aikin) American independence 128 175, 191 Anderson, John 7 Adams, George (instrument maker) 128 animal electricity 83 Addington, Stephen 39, 47, 50 n 37 Annals of the Reign of King George the Third (John Address to the Deity (Barbauld) 222 Aikin 1816) 156, 160 Address to the Dissidents (John Aikin 1790) 82 Annan, Noel 5, 6, 152 n 6 Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation Annual Review and History of Literature 21, 133, 208 and Test Acts (Barbauld 1790) 138, 151 n 81 Antwerp 100 Address to the People (Palmer 1793) 130 applications of useful knowledge 127, 132, 142 affection 5, 11 architecture 19 affective response and individualism 6, 20, 100, aristocracy of intellect 139 101, 159, 162, 171 aristocracy of science 126 age and political Dissent 127 aristocratic improvement projects 104 Aikin, Anna 209 Aristophanes 78 Aikin, Arthur (1773–1854) 4, 18–19, 21, 106, 110, Armstrong, Archibald 174 112, 113, 118, 119, 126–45 Armstrong, Isobel 207–8 Aikin, Charles Rochemont (1775–1847) 4, 19, 84, Arnold, Matthew 7, 54, 67 n 8 126, 133, 190 art of design 135 Aikin, Edmund (1780–1820) 19 Askesian Society of London 133–4 Aikin, John (1713–80) 4, 8, 11, 17, 28–43, 47 n 1, Aspland, Robert 207 49 n 9, 57 associational psychology 139, 140, 141, Aikin, John (1747–1822) 4, 14, 56, 70–85, 94–120, 222, 224 128–9, 136–42, 186, 187, 194, 200, 208–9, Autobiography (Harriet Martineau 1877) 184, 186 210, 211, 213, 215, 218 Aikin, Lucy (1781–1864) 4, 11, 14, 17, 20, 36, 52, 53, Babington, Thomas 132 80, 81, 84, 94, 97, 108, 111, 113, 116, 118, 120, Baillie, Joanna 161 128, 156–77, 178 n 6, 183–201, 205, 209 Barbauld, Anna Letitia 1–2, 4, 10–11, 12, 13–16, 17, Aikin, Susan 205 21, 22, 52–66, 70, 74, 96, 97, 106, 110, 111, Aikin family as a democratic powerhouse 198 138, 139, 140, 162, 163, 170, 185, 186, 190, 197, Aikin family collaborations (particularly 198, 199–201, 206, 207, 209, 210, 211–14, 218, published) 96–9, 100, 108, 109, 200 220, 223, 225 Aikin family legacy 199–201, 206 Barbauld, John Aikin and medicine 76 Aikin Family Papers (University of Rochester) 23 Barbauld, Rochemont 1, 55, 61, 62, 97, 106, 188, Aikin–Barbauld Circle 1–4, 16–18, 19, 22–3 199, 207, 213 Aikinia (Asian plant species) 19 Barbauld and America 52–5 Aikinite (sulphide mineral) 19 Barbauld intellectual style 58 Alcott, Bronson 52 Barker, John 32 Aldersgate Street dispensary (Aikins, London) Barry, James 213 132, 133 Bartolozzi, Francesco 1, 23 249 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00808-3 - Religious Dissent and the Aikin–Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860 Edited by Felicity James and Ian Inkster Index More information 250 Index Belsham, Thomas 9, 25 n 27, 33, 35, 38, 47, 129, citizenship 61, 108, 138 130, 143 civic humanism and civil society 78, 95 Benson, George 34 Civic Sermons to the People (Barbauld 1792) 16 Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain civil society 56, 116, 140, 141, 142, 208 (John Aikin 1780) 17, 73, 74 Clarke, Samuel 29, 32, 33, 45, 82 Birmingham riots (1791) 3, 127, 136, 139, 218 classical knowledge and allusions 40, 62, 72, 73, Blackwell, Thomas (Aberdeen) 31 75, 77, 78–9, 85, 90, 90 n 47, 92 n 67, 95, 97, Bloomfield, Robert 22 108, 117, 138, 140, 151 n 81, 186, 188, 192, 193, Bluestockings 55, 63, 67 n 12, 211, 213 196, 197, 215 Board of Agriculture 106 Clayton, Nicholas 127 body and mind 81 Clyde ironworks 136 Boleyn, Ann 171 Coalbrookdale iron 136 Bostock, John (Liverpool) 71 Cobbet, William 130 botany 37, 73, 109 Cogan, John (surgeon) 37 Brantley, Richard E. 8, 25 n 19 Cogan, Thomas 9, 33, 35, 38, 45 Bright, Henry 14 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 61, 66 Bright, Richard 127, 151 n 79 collaborative creativity 5, 187, 200 Bright Bros. of Melbourne, Victoria 138 collective public representation 206 ‘bright daughters of a land renowned’ 117, 197 Collins, Anthony 82 Bright family (Bristol) 137 Coltman, John 9, 12, 33–7, 43, 44, 50 n 29 Bright’s disease 151 n 80 Coltman, John 33 British Mineralogical Society 133, 150 n 64 Coltman, Samuel 36 Britton, John 119 commerce 115, 117, 130 Brodribb, Arthur Aikin 205 Committee of Mechanics (RSA London) 135 Brown, P. A. 128 congregations and chapels (see also by name) 9, 15, Browne, Thomas 87 n 15 32, 33, 34, 38, 46, 49 n 10, 64, 106, 137, 138, Browning, Robert 207 143, 144, 146 n 10, 222 Buckminster, Joseph Stevens 52 converts from reason to authority (John Aikin) 141 Burke, Edmund 7, 129, 139, 140, 219 Cooper, Robert B. 103 Burstein, Miriam 157 Cooper, Thomas 129, 148 n 27 corruption 79 Calendar of Nature (John Aikin 1784) 99 Costello, Louisa 157 calm of despotism (Percival) 137 county culture 105 Calvinism 64 Cragwell, Jasper 8 candour 84, 128, 140, 145 creativity and Dissent 4, 7–8, 185, 198, 209 Cappe, Newcome 9, 33, 35, 45, 53 criminal reform 140 Carlyle, Thomas 176, 177 Cronstadt, Frederic 133 Carter, Elizabeth 55, 63 Crown and Anchor Tavern (London) 10 Catherine of Aragon 104 Cullen, William 76 Catholics 170 cultural neighbourhoods 154 n 121 Census of England and Wales (1801 and 1811) cultural progress 114, 118, 140, 190 112, 119 Cunningham, Andrew 84 Channing, William Ellery 52, 193 Currie, James (Liverpool) 129, 139, 148 n 30 Chapone, Hester Mulso 63 Cuthbertson, John 134 character and sentiment 120 Character of Women 196 Da Costa, E. M. (publisher) 133, 149 n 47 Chaucer, Geoffrey 74 Daniels, Stephen 15, 18, 187 chemistry and chemical manufactures 132, 135, Darwin, Erasmus 73 136, 142 Daventry Academy 33, 34, 38, 42, 45, 47, 215 child’s perspective and experience 183, 184, 186–7 Davidoff, Leonore 6 children’s reading and education 15, 64, 65, 94, 98, Davidson, Robert 102 99, 107, 113, 185, 199 Davis, Natalie Zemon 157 Chimbarozo (Chimborazo, Ecuador) 118 Davison, William 166 Church and King 139 Davy, Humphry 133, 134 churchgoing and communal worship 58 Deism and providence 217 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00808-3 - Religious Dissent and the Aikin–Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860 Edited by Felicity James and Ian Inkster Index More information Index 251 delineation 102 –3 England Delineated (John Aikin 1788) 94, 101–6 Denman, Thomas 62, 207 English law 171 De Quincey, Thomas 65 enlightened knowledge 102 Description of the Country (John Aikin 1793) 107 Enlightenment, the 56, 70, 75, 108, 115 , 190 , 192, Devotional Taste (Barbauld 1775 ) 63 193, 206, 212, 213 dialectic of Dissent 216 enlightenment passages 3 , 31 Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy (Arthur enthusiasm and evangelism 59, 60, 63 and C. R. Aikin 1807) 19, 134 Epicureanism 78 Dinwiddy, J. R. 144 Epistles on Women (Lucy Aikin 1810) 20, 116, 163, disciplinary boundaries 70, 75, 95, 159 174–7, 185, 188, 189–95 , 197, 209 disease and vice 78, 83 Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke disease, reform and society (see also Medicine, 1690) 81 morality and society) 70 , 77 , 78, 81, 83, Essay on Song Writing (John Aikin 1772) 200 90 n 41, 140 Essay on the Application of Natural History to Poetry Dissenting academies (individual and general), see (John Aikin 1777 ) 95 also under individual academies, 9 , 25 n 27, Essex Street Chapel 9 , 189 29–30, 43, 75, 97 , 151 n 76, 183, 215 establishment (Anglican and political), standard Dissenting culture (general aspects) 22, 53, 54 , 55– and opposition 7, 9, 10, 55, 56, 59, 79, 81, 84 , 7 , 59, 64, 79, 80 , 81, 82, 91 n 58, 101, 106, 120, 129, 131, 137, 139 , 145 , 170, 207, 215 126, 130, 131, 137 , 138, 139, 140 , 142 , 143 , 144, ethics and morality of political questions 161 160 , 161, 165, 185, 208, 210 , 211, 215 , 217, 227 n Eton College 62 16 Europe and the human mind 115 Dissenting deputies (London) 30 Evans, John 129 Dissenting micro-cultures 127, 144, 206 Evenings at Home (John Aikin and Barbauld Dissenting networks 9 , 189, 190 1792–6 ) 107 –9, 161 Dissenting philosophers 126 execution of King Charles I 168 Ditchfield, G. M. 92 n 60 experimental method (see also laboratory divine right of kings 167 , 175 manipulations) 76, 136 DNB and New Oxford Dictionary of National experimental philosophy 134 Biography 4 , 33, 205 eye of the public 126, 138 Dobson, Matthew (Liverpool) 71 Doddridge, Philip 9 , 10, 11 , 12 , 29, 32, 33, 34, 37, familial interactions and connections (exemplary) 39, 45, 48 n 5 , 59 –60, 61, 64 3 , 4 –8, 21– 2, 57, 128, 131, 183–4 , 186, 188, 189 Doddridge divinity lectures 41 familiarity and intimacy 12 , 107 domestic versus political history 162, 184, 193 family and society (general) 16–17, 22–3 , 194, 200 , Dyer, John 103 208 Dyer, Samuel (author and translator) 39 family biography 4 –8 Dzelzainis, Ella 192 Family Expositor, The (Doddridge 1739–56 ) 59 –61 family history 184 (see also memorializing) Eaton, Daniel Isaac (radical publisher) 151 n 74 family life, as exemplary 20, 185, 187, 197, 210 Eden 191 Farmer, Richard (Cambridge) 37 Edgeworth family 1, 21, 195 Felber, Lynette 157 Edinburgh medical school 87 n 17, 89 n 30 Female Biography (Mary Hays 1802) 195, 196 education and Dissent (generalizations) 4 , 8–9, 12 , female education 108, 110, 187, 194 138, 215 female equality 175 Eger, Elizabeth 213 female execution by burning 171 Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (Barbauld 1812) 116, female intellectualism
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