How to Create the Perfect Wife (66 page)

children and,
28–29
,
46
,
91
,
106

Day and,
2–3
,
4

health problems/death,
91
,
106

Edgeworthstown,
46–47
,
266

Elers, Anna Maria.
See
Edgeworth, Anna Maria

Elers, Paul,
29

Émile, or on Education
(Rousseau)

Day’s wife-training plan and,
49
,
83
,
85–86
,
93
,
94
,
109
,
119–120
,
121–122
,
127
,
137
,
189
,
190
,
191

description/education of Émile,
37–40
,
83

Dick Edgeworth’s education and,
40–46
,
91
,
93
,
114
,
120
,
142
,
151
,
152–155
,
225

followers of,
39–40
,
44
,
114
,
120
,
126
,
175
,
253–254

France banning,
35
,
86
,
15
1

religion and,
38
,
39

Rousseau on,
44
,
152

sequel,
217

Sophie and,
38
,
47–48
,
94

Sophie’s education,
48
,
94

Emilius and Sophia
(Rousseau),
217

Epictetus,
12

Evelina
(Burney),
109–110
,
182

Falconet, Étienne Maurice,
98

Farington, Joseph,
249

Fielding, Henry,
19

Flexney, William,
177
,
182

Foundling Hospital

Bicknell/Day opposing music lessons,
182–184
,
241

Day’s donation/as governor,
60
,
76

Dorcas Car and,
76
,
100–101

General Reception,
65–66

life at,
55–56
,
63–75

location/history
54–56
,
63–66

naming babies,
64–66
,
69

opening country hospitals,
71–73

records on orphans,
63
,
64
,
73

Sabrina and,
56–58
,
59
,
60
,
66–69
,
71–72
,
73–75
,
101

Shrewsbury Hospital beginnings,
72–73

tokens left with babies,
63
,
64
,
67
,
68–69

wet nurses,
69–70
,
71
,
72

France

British visitors,
85

conflict with Britain,
256
,
257
,
261

Day’s makeover in,
151
,
153
,
155–160

See also
Day, Thomas and wife-training plan/France

Franklin, Benjamin

Boston Tea Party and,
176

Club of Thirteen,
174–175
,
184
,
206–208

group of friends,
174
,
175
,
176
,
184
,
206

French Revolution,
37

Gainsborough, Thomas,
39

Galatea,
62
,
98
,
156
,
196
,
205
,
275

Galton, Emma,
208
,
209

Galton, Galton,
232

Galton, Samuel,
123
,
126–127
,
232

Gason, Caroline,
263

Gentleman’s Magazine,
136
,
247

George III,
206

Georgian culture.
See
British culture and social history (eighteenth century)

Gibbon, Edward,
14
,
15
,
19

Graham, John,
262

Grand Tour,
23
,
157

Greenwich,
249
,
250–251
,
252
,
257
,
258
,
261
,
264
,
268
,
269
,
272
,
273

Greville, Frances,
48

Grig, Ann,
77

See also
Car, Dorcas

Guy, Pierre,
86

Haliburton, James,
262

Hall, Elizabeth,
208–209

Hampstead,
213–214
,
268

Handel, George Frideric,
65

Hardinge, George,
242–243
,
260

Hare Hatch,
29
,
32
,
33
,
42
,
140

Harvey, Susannah,
180
,
189

Hawkesworth, Elizabeth,
200

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

Hogarth, William,
65

Holland,
181–182

Hume, David,
18
,
19
,
36

Hunter, John, Reverend,
103

Hunter, John (surgeon),
120

Illegitimacy,
68
,
258–259

James, Henry,
130–131
,
255

Jefferson, Thomas,
52
,
176

Johnson, Samuel

background/ideas,
22
,
85
,
248
,
249–250

on Day,
126

Lichfield and,
103
,
119
,
121

Jones, William (Oriental),
33
,
174

Julie, or The New Héloïse
(Rousseau),
3
7
,
114
,
217

Kauffman, Angelica,
21–22

Keir, James

background/business,
52
,
125
,
126
,
127
,
180
,
189

Day’s biography and,
245–247
,
252
,
254
,
267
,
270

Day’s publisher and,
243
,
247

Day’s wife-training plan and,
126
,
127
,
128
,
130
,
131
,
174
,
180
,
188
,
189
,
194
,
195
,
209
,
210
,
212
,
213
,
228
,
237
,
270