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Auteur(s) : Wodrow, James (1730-1810)
Kenrick, Samuel (1728-1811)
Titre(s) : The Wodrow-Kenrick correspondence, 1750-1810. Volume I, 1750-1783 [Texte imprimé] / edited by Martin Fitzpatrick, Emma Macleod, and Anthony Page
Lien au titre d'ensemble : Appartient à : The Wodrow-Kenrick correspondence, 1750-1810
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 547 pages) : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 503-515 and index
Reverend James Wodrow (1730-1810), minister of the Church of Scotland at Stevenston
in Ayrshire, and Samuel Kenrick (1728-1811), tutor to a Renfrewshire family until
1763, and subsequently a merchant and banker in Bewdley, Worcestershire, began corresponding
soon after leaving the University of Glasgow in 1750. They continued to do so until
James Wodrow's death in 1810. Unusually, around 85% of the letters on both sides survive,
held in manuscript in Dr Williams's Library, London. Volume I of this edition covers
the years 1750-1783. Their correspondence is an exceptionally rich resource for the
study of British culture and society in the era of Enlightenment and revolutions but
one which has been underused, despite its value, and which ought to be much more widely
known and available to scholars working in a range of fields. In lively and highly
readable letters, Wodrow and Kenrick discussed politics, religion, reform, revolution,
theology, international affairs, society, the economy, education, family, friendship,
health, books, and many other concerns. Sustained over six decades, the correspondence
reveals the lives of two highly literate provincial men and their families during
the high and late Enlightenment, and the age of revolutions. Because they disagreed
on some matters, notably the American and French Revolutions, they wrote lengthy and
passionately-argued letters about them which are here made easily available to scholars
for the first time. Samuel Kenrick lived in England from 1765, and the men only met
again in 1789, so their friendship was carried out almost entirely on paper for forty-five
years. The correspondence constitutes a remarkable record of a friendship
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Fitzpatrick, Martin (1944-....). Éditeur scientifique
Page, Anthony (1969-....). Éditeur scientifique
Macleod, Emma Vincent. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Wodrow, James (1730-1810)
Kenrick, Samuel (1728-1811)
Grande-Bretagne -- 1760-1820 (Georges III)
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
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Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198809012. - ISBN 0198809018
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466342114
Notice n° :
FRBNF46634211
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