How to Create the Perfect Wife (62 page)

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INDEX

Addenbrooke, John,
158

Alexander the Great,
20

American independence

British and,
170
,
176–177
,
184
,
185
,
195–196
,
206

Day’s support for,
206
,
223

John André and,
139

peace treaty,
223

André, John,
138–139
,
166

Animal rights,
174
,
243

Anningsley Park,
224
,
243
,
244

Annual Review,
260
,
261

Antislavery movement

British legislation,
171–172

Buxton and,
262

Day and,
170–171
,
172
,
178
,
184
,
206

hypocrisy and,
170–171
,
172
,
185

Lunar Society and,
184

writings on,
169–171
,
172
,
239

See also
Dying Negro, The
(Day and Bicknell)

Apothecaries,
230–231

Aston, Elizabeth,
119

Austen, Jane,
225

Avignon

Day and orphans,
87–97
,
100
,
101

history,
88

Barehill,
11
,
32
,
50
,
53
,
87
,
106
,
243

Bath,
211–212

Beaufort, Frances Anne (Edgeworth),
263
,
266

Belinda
(Maria Edgeworth),
253–254
,
268

Bentley, Thomas

Day’s wedding,
212

Franklin club and,
174
,
175
,
176
,
184
,
206–207

Rousseau and,
207–208

Bicknell, Henry Edgeworth

Burney Club,
262–263

childhood,
238
,
239
,
247
,
252
,
256

death,
274

description,
263–264
,
273

marriages/children,
263–264
,
274

Bicknell, John

background,
13
,
26

career,
13
,
26
,
170
,
233–234
,
238

Charterhouse,
13

Day’s wife-training plan and,
26
,
28
,
50
,
53
,
54
,
56
,
57–58
,
78–79
,
101
,
106
,
130
,
233–234
,
235
,
240

death,
239

friendship with Day,
13–14
,
16–17
,
19
,
20
,
23
,
26
,
27–28
,
49–51
,
50–51
,
53
,
181
,
212
,
233

lifestyle,
26–28
,
233
,
239
,
243

marriage proposal,
234–235

Middle Temple,
18
,
26–28

mother and Sabrina,
101
,
106
,
240

opposing orphanage music lessons,
182–184
,
239
,
241

selecting orphan for Day,
54
,
56
,
57–58
,
233

wedding/marriage,
237–239

See also
Dying Negro, The
(Day and Bicknell)

Bicknell, John Laurens

Burney Club and,
262–263

childhood,
238
,
239
,
247
,
252
,
256

death,
2
74

description,
261
,
264
,
265
,
273
,
274

marriage/children,
263
,
264
,
274

mother’s background and,
257–260
,
261
,
269
,
270
,
271

Bicknell, Maria,
264–265

Bicknell, Mary,
263

Bicknell, Sabrina

Bicknell family and,
240
,
241–242
,
264

Burney family and,
247
,
248–252
,
256
,
258
,
259
,
261–262
,
265
,
267–268
,
271

death,
2
73

Edgeworth memoirs,
267
,
268–271

Edgeworth relationship,
240
,
25
1
,
263
,
264
,
265–266
,
267

following husband’s death,
239–243
,
244

grandchildren,
263
,
271
,
273
,
274

life summary,
273–274

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

portrait,
271–272

retirement,
271–272
,
273

wedding/marriage,
237–239
,
258

will,
273

See also
Sidney, Sabrina

Bicknell, Sarah,
240

Birmingham,
31
,
52
,
125
,
127
,
136
,
166
,
188
,
196
,
203
,
206
,
208
,
229
,
230
,
231
,
232
,
237
,
242

Boston Tea Party (1773),
176

Boswell, James,
27
,
36
,
238

Boulton, Matthew

background/business,
52
,
125–126
,
184
,
208
,
212
,
214
,
222