How to Create the Perfect Wife (69 page)

wealth,
144

Sneyd, Elizabeth (Bessy)

background/family,
104
,
144
,
147
,
164

breaking engagement,
160–161
,
162

Day’s makeover and,
148
,
151
,
159–160

description/personality,
146
,
147

Edgeworth marriage,
221–222

education,
146
,
147

meeting Day/engagement,
146–148

Sneyd, Honora

background/family,
104
,
138
,
146
,
164

Day and,
137
,
140–144

Day’s proposal and,
142–144

Edgeworth and,
131–133
,
137
,
139–140
,
141–143
,
144
,
151
,
153

fiancée,
138–139

Seward family,
104–106
,
107
,
112
,
114
,
131”132
,
133
,
137
,
138–139
,
140–141

See also
Edgeworth, Honora

Sneyd, Lucy,
138
,
164

Sneyd, Mary,
138
,
164

Sneyd, Susanna,
138

Soane, Sir John,
264

Social Contract, The
(Rousseau),
35
,
37
,
151
,
152
,
177

Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce,
30
,
43

Somerset, James,
171–172

Southey, Robert,
227
,
247

Spenser, Edmund,
75

Sterne, Laurence,
82
,
88
,
150

Stockdale, John,
243
,
247

Stoics,
4
,
12

Stourbridge,
127
,
180
,
188

Stowe House, Lichfield

Day/Sabrina and,
105–112
,
113–115
,
116
,
118–130
,
131–133

description,
106–107

Suard, Amélie/Jean-Baptiste,
161–162

Sutton Coldfield,
135–136

Thrale, Hester,
85
,
248
,
249–250

Trollope, Anthony,
255–256

Vaughton, Roger,
209

Verner, Deborah,
72

Victoria, Queen,
271

“Virtue” definitions,
18–19

Voltaire,
17–18
,
98

Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths,
262

Warburton-Lytton, Elizabeth,
120
,
224

Warburton-Lytton, Richard

Day and,
17
,
33

description/background,
17
,
120

Wardley, Jarvis,
230–231

Washington, George,
139
,
176

Watch and Ward
(James),
130–131
,
255

Watt, James,
43
,
52
,
125
,
186
,
189
,
212

Wedgwood, Josiah

background/business,
52
,
125–126
,
174
,
176

Day’s wedding,
212

education of children,
126

Lunar Society,
52
,
125
,
126
,
184

Wharton, Robert,
85

Whitehurst, John,
46

Widowhood,
240

Wilde, Oscar,
227

Wilkinson, Ann/Richard,
201
,
210
,
211

Williams, David

background,
175

Franklin club,
175
,
176
,
207–208

multi-denominational services,
175
,
207

Williams, Helen Maria,
238–239

Willmott, Jane,
263

Wollstonecraft, Mary,
7
,
48–49

Women’s status

in eighteenth-century Britain,
6
,
21–22
,
79
,
97–98

husband-wife relationship,
21

marriage age,
54

“perfect woman,”
97–98

Pygmalion myth,
61–62
,
97–98
,
107
,
131
,
156
,
196
,
256
,
274
,
275

sex industry, Georgian London,
53–54

society’s expectations,
21

views on women’s education,
6–7
,
17
,
48
,
94
,
114–115
,
136

Wood, Fanny Anne,
272–273

Wootton Hall,
35
,
36
,
40

Wright, Joseph,
39–40
,
84
,
112–113
,
126

Wurtemberg, Prince, Princess and Sophie (daughter),
39
,
44
,
120
,
152