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The Ladies' Diary: or, Woman's Almanack appeared annually in London from 1704 to 1841 after which it was succeeded by The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary. [1] It featured material relating to calendars etc. including sunrise and sunset times and phases of the moon, as well as important dates (eclipses, holidays, school terms, etc.), and a ...
John Dalton FRS (/ ˈ d ɔː l t ən /; 5 or ... answered questions on various subjects in The Ladies' Diary and the Gentleman's Diary. In 1787 at age 21 he began his ...
John Tipper (1663–1713) was an English mathematician and almanac-maker, now known as the founder of The Ladies' Diary, in which some important mathematical results were first published. Life [ edit ]
Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough (née St John; 15 July 1699 — 26 March 1756), [1] was an English poet and letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener.She married the rising politician Robert Knight in 1727, but he banished her to his estate at Barrells Hall in 1736 as punishment for a romantic indiscretion.
The son of the Rev. John Dalton, rector of Dean, Cumberland, he was born there; Richard Dalton was his brother. He received his school education at Lowther, Westmorland, and when sixteen years old was sent to The Queen's College, Oxford, entering the college as batler 12 October 1725, being elected taberdar 2 November 1730, and taking the degree of B.A. on 20 November 1730.
John Dalton is an American author. His first novel, Heaven Lake won the 2005 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters [ 1 ] and the 2004 Barnes & Noble Discover Award in Fiction.
Heath is best known as a contributor to The Ladies' Diary, from 1737.He was taken onto the staff, and proposed the prize essays for 1739, 1740, 1742, 1746, and 1748. When Henry Beighton, editor of the Diary, died in October 1743, the proprietors, the Stationers' Company, allowed Beighton's widow to run it with Heath as her deputy.
In 1765 she ran off with John Shackleton and married him in Gretna Green. She allegedly volunteered to become the wife of a wool merchant who was eighteen years younger than her. By 1770, her new husband was devoting his life to drinking, hunting and fishing. He was also, embarrassingly, befriending workmen, their servants, and their tenants.