How to Create the Perfect Wife (64 page)

biographies,
245–247
,
252
,
254
,
267
,
270

charity and,
3
,
18
,
19–20
,
34
,
41
,
223–224
,
240
,
244
,
269

children’s books,
224–225
,
226–228
,
232
,
243

death,
243

Edgeworth home visit (1768),
1–5
,
45–47

education of Dick Edgeworth and,
41
,
42
,
43
,
44–46

etiquette and fashion,
2–3
,
4
,
13
,
16
,
20–21
,
24
,
50–51
,
83
,
85
,
89–91
,
98
,
112
,
150–151
,
160–161
,
178
,
179

on Honora,
132–133

human rights and,
3
,
10
,
170–171
,
172
,
173–174
,
178
,
184
,
206

influences (summary),
4
,
12

on love,
4–5
,
16
,
18
,
23
,
24
,
25
,
33
,
50
,
148

Lunar Society,
5
1
,
52
,
125–126
,
173–174
,
184

makeover in France,
151
,
153
,
155–160

monologues,
3
,
16
,
33–34
,
46
,
97
,
112
,
126
,
141
,
146
,
147

paintings by Wright,
112–113

personal hygiene and,
2
,
3

personality,
2–3
,
20–21
,
23
,
33
,
91
,
114
,
126
,
175
,
182
,
224
,
240
,
244

physical description,
2
,
20
,
112

rejection by Elizabeth Hall,
208–209

stepfather and,
10–11
,
16
,
53

will,
229–230
,
244

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Day, Thomas and wife-training plan

attacks on,
235–237
,
245
,
253–254
,
260–261

biography and,
245–248

contract regarding orphans,
78–79
,
97
,
101
,
115
,
130

decision on future wife,
98–100

description of perfect woman,
22–23
,
25
,
54
,
97
,
98

Émile
and,
49
,
83
,
85–86
,
93
,
94
,
109
,
119–120
,
121–122
,
127
,
137
,
189
,
190
,
191

ethics (summary),
53
,
79
,
275

inheritance and,
53

“love” and,
4–5
,
16
,
25

peasant women,
23–24
,
26

poems of,
24–25

relationship with mother and,
10–11
,
16

stoicism/isolated life and,
4
,
6
,
21
,
25
,
140
,
141
,
143–144
,
213–220
,
222
,
223–225
,
243

today’s view of,
275

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Day, Thomas and wife-training plan/France

Avignon,
87–97
,
100
,
101

Day’s recklessness,
86–87

Day’s views of French,
82–83
,
84
,
85
,
90
,
91–92

Edgeworth correspondence,
87–88
,
90–91
,
92–93
,
95

isolating orphans,
83
,
89

leaving/return to England,
101

in Paris,
82–85

reasons for trip,
83–84
,
89

travel to France,
81–82

travel to Lyon,
85–87

Day, Thomas childhood

birth,
10

boxing,
12–13

Charterhouse School,
11–13

description/personality,
9–10
,
11
,
12
,
13

father,
10

inheritance,
10

question to vicar,
9–10

relationship with mother,
10–11
,
16

smallpox and,
2
,
11

Stoke Newington boarding school,
11

Day, Thomas/Oxford University

description/life,
3
,
14
,
15–20
,
18
,
51

education and,
14
,
15
,
17–20

influences,
17–20

inheritance and,
15
,
20
,
23
,
41

law studies,
1
,
5
,
18
,
51
,
170
,
171
,
206
,
222

leaving,
41

Leonora,
23
,
25
,
77

stoicism and,
15–16

walking trips,
23–26

women and,
5
,
16
,
20
,
21
,
22–23
,
25

De Luc, Françoise-Antoinette (Fanny),
231–232

De Luc, Jean André,
231

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
(Gibbon),
14

Delaval, Sir Francis Blake,
31
,
34
,
79

Denning, Stephen Poyntz,
271–272

Devoted Legions, The
(Day),
206

Dickens, Charles,
227

Dickinson, John,
170

Dictionnaire Philosophique
(Voltaire),
17–18

Diderot, Denis,
98

Dying Negro, The
(Day and Bicknell)