How to Create the Perfect Wife (63 page)

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