Tobias Smollett's wife. Daughter of a Jamaican Plantation owner, Anne lived in Kingston, Jamaica with her mother, then twice widowed. Smollett met and married Anne on a visit to Jamaica in 1743. Smollett described her as 'a delicate creature, who had scarce ever walked a mile in her life.'
English wit, Anglican preacher, and advocate for parliamentary reform. His writings were incredibly influential in changing the public opinion of Roman Catholic emancipation.
Author of Conversation in Heaven. Being Devotions; consisting of meditations and prayers on several considerable subjects in practical divinity (1693).
Poet and novelist Charlotte Turner Smith provides an unusual example of a Romantic period woman who began as a coterie poet, but out of necessity became a professional writer. Charlotte Turner was born into a well-to-do family, but after the early death of her mother, she was consigned first to the care of an aunt, then to boarding school.
Chaplain of St. Saviour's in Southwark.
Member of UK Parliament for Callington, 1771-1780. Born of Claverton Manor; he sold the estate to Ralph Allen in 1758.
An Irish scholar and friend of Samuel Richardson.
English poet and satirist. Phyllyp Sparowe is his best-known poem.
Swiss historian and political economist, born under the surname Simonde. Sismondi is most remembered for his research on French and Italian history. He also provided the first liberal criticism of laissez-faire economics, advocating for such social supports as sickness benefits and unemployment insurance.
Sinbad the sailor—also spelled Sindbad—is a character of Arabic literature and hero of The Thousand and One Nights, stories based on the trials of seafaring merchants from Iraq. The narrative frame assigns the stories to Scheherazade, a Persian princess whose royal husband's lack of faith in female fidelity prompts him to execute each of his wives the morning after he marries them. Sheherazade tells the stories night after night, so intriguing her husband that day after day he extends her life long enough to hear the next night's installment.
