Posts by Amanda Moore INW
Jane Austen Centre in Bath
Family members of Jane Austen…and why not a visit to the Regency Architecture of Bath and a visit to the Jane Austen Centre as well?
Read MorePride and Prejudice Published in 1813 by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice published whilst Jane Austn was living at Chawton.
Read MoreJane Austen’s House and Museum at Chawton Hants
It was Chawton where Jane spent the last 8 years of her life in the grace and favour small house provided by the generosity of her brother Edward Austen. Now the location of the Jane Austen House Museum
Read MoreJane Austen was born 1775 Steventon Hants
Jane Austen possibly the greatest female writer of all time and one of the top 5 of both men and women, well thats what the distinguished critic F R Leavis believed…
Read MoreNewton states laws of motion and gravity in Principia Mathematica 1686-1687
Newtorn’s major work impacts on thinking of the Enlightenment’s philosophers and social reform…the world is not the centre of the universe!
Read MoreJane Austen lived in Henrietta Street, just a mapped snippet 1813-1814
There is a blue plaque confirming the details on the fascia of the building, the address is 10 Henrietta Street Westminster, London WC2E 8, UK United Kingdom. Jane Austen lived here briefly between 1813-1814
Read MoreVoltaire Champions English Values in Philosophical letters 1734
Voltaire escapes to England and uses a discourse on English Society to attack the lack of religious tolerance in France, early in the period of enlightenment…
Read MoreVoltaire’s view of histography…Encylopedie
Voltaire on Histography, as leader of the enlightenment.
Read MoreLeaders of the Enlightenment, in a nutshell
Who were the central thinkers and leaders of the period of the enlightenment…who together changed the way we and our societies and families that made those societies thought and organised our world. There would be backward steps but the genie of enlightenment was out of the box…
Read MoreJohn Locke Philosopher defends the right of the people to overthrow any ruler..
John Locke, a philosopher with a long-term impact. What was the role of this often over-looked british philosopher ins establishing the principles for democracy in the period of Enlightenment.
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