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- ↑ Heller, D. (2016). Bluestockings Now!: The Evolution of a Social Role. Taylor and Francis Group. p. 114. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
...a nephew of Lady Jane McCarthy, daughter of the Prime Minister Earl of Bute, King George III's favourite] was a pupil of Palgrave...was Margaret Georgiana, Countess Spencer (1737–1814), whose donations to needy individuals and worthy causes were...The secretary to Spencer's charity committee in 1774 was John Burrows,...Burrows knew personally the leading intellectuals among the Bluestocking women...
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/worksofannlaetit01barbuoft/worksofannlaetit01barbuoft_djvu.txt Memoir of Mrs Barbauld by Lucy Aikin
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- ↑ Mrs. Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1994). The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. University of Georgia Press. p. 279. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
Philip Meadows , solicitor , of Diss ( 1719–83 ) , was a sponsor of Palgrave School ...
- ↑ James, F. (2012). Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860. University of Cambridge Press. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
Sarah Meadows Martineau, the descendant of a Unitarian minister, was matriarch of the Norwich Martineau clan, ...had sent her children...to Barbauld's school at Palgrave; she was the grandmother of Harriet Martineau
- ↑ McCarthy, W. (2008). Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 231. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
The youngest Martineau son [Thomas/Tommy] may have been one of the first eight Palgrave boys...Barbauld/Martineau relationship began with Tommy Martineau's arrival at Palgrave that lasted for 50 years...
