Background
Thomas Day was born on June 22, 1748 in London, the only child of Thomas and Jane Day. His father died when he was about a year old, but left him wealthy.
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) N029696 Anonymous. By Thomas Day. Verse. On the expedition of Crassus against the Parthians, intended as a satire upon the American War. With a half-title. London : printed for G. Kearsly; and J. Ridley, 1776. 8,14p. ; 4°
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1170753299/?tag=2022091-20
(The History of Sandford and Merton 1783 1789 was a bestse...)
The History of Sandford and Merton 1783 1789 was a bestselling children s book written by Thomas Day He began it as a contribution to Richard Lovell and Honora Edgeworth s Harry and Lucy a collection of short stories for children that Maria Edgeworth continued some years after Honora died He eventually expanded his original short story into the first volume of The History of Sandford and Merton which was published anonymously in 1783 two further volumes subsequently followed in 1786 and 1789 The book was wildly successful and was reprinted until the end of the nineteenth century It retained enough popularity or invoked enough nostalgia at the end of the nineteenth century to inspire a satire The New History of Sandford and Merton whose preface proudly announces that it will teach you what to don t
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1533119546/?tag=2022091-20
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1165745364/?tag=2022091-20
(This book, "An account of the life and writings of Thomas...)
This book, "An account of the life and writings of Thomas Day", by Keir James, is a replication. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005G1DERO/?tag=2022091-20
Thomas Day was born on June 22, 1748 in London, the only child of Thomas and Jane Day. His father died when he was about a year old, but left him wealthy.
Day first attended a school in Stoke Newington, Middlesex, but then moved to Charterhouse School.
He attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford, but didn't graduate and left the college in 1767.
With an old schoolfriend, Thomas Bicknell, Day went to the Foundling Hospital in Shrewsbury where he picked out a girl and named her Sabrina Sidney. The next stop was Coram's Fields in London, where he chose a second girl, named Lucretia. They were 11 and 12. He took them to France to educate them in isolation. The girls became ill, and quarrelled. Day decided to give up on Lucretia, who he did not think could satisfy him intellectually. Sabrina he felt was still a possibility, but her character had to be further strengthened.
Although Sabrina longed to please him, she never came round to the regime. Day finally gave in. In early 1771 he packed her off to boarding school in Sutton Coldfield: he had failed to train her, which proved, of course, that she was hopeless material to start with.
In 1773 he wrote the first anti-slavery poem "The Dying Negro" with Bicknell. It is also obvious from his other works, such as "The Devoted Legions" (1776) and "The Desolation of America" (1777), that he strongly sympathized with the Americans during their War of Independence.
In 1780 he stepped forward as an impassioned campaigner against political corruption, sharing a platform with John Wilkes.
Thomas Day was well known for the book The History of Sandford and Merton that haunted Victorian nurseries, and ran through 140 editions before 1870. It was a best-selling children's book written by him.
(The History of Sandford and Merton 1783 1789 was a bestse...)
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
(This book, "An account of the life and writings of Thomas...)
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
Day was married to Esther Milnes, an heiress who agreed with his ascetic programme of life.
