The history of Sir George Ellison
by Sarah Scott
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Sarah Robinson Scott (1720-1795), the author of novels, biographies, and histories, was born to many advantages of education and upbringing that made her a writer. But without a strong desire for financial independence, she might never have become a professional author. She saw a great advantage in being unmarried because only unmarried women were free to work toward their own ends. This theme was to be incorporated into her first novel and best known work, A Description of Millenium Hall (1762).
The History of Sir George Ellison (1766) is a sequel to Millenium Hall. In it, Sir George, a visitor to the Hall, follows the pattern of the female utopia set forth in the earlier novel. Scott addresses issues of slavery, marriage, education, law and social justice, class pretensions, and the position of women in society. Throughout the book Scott consistently emphasizes the importance, for both genders and all classes and ages, of devoting one's life and most of one's time to meaningful work.
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The History Of Sir George Ellison
July 25, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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0548279446 9780548279441
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The History Of Sir George Ellison
June 1, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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in English
143268485X 9781432684853
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The history of Sir George Ellison
1996, University Press of Kentucky
in English
0813119383 9780813119380
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The man of real sensibility; or, The history of Sir George Ellison.: Founded on fact. : [Six lines from Sterne]
1800, --Printed and sold by Bonsal & Niles--also sold at their book-store, no. 173, Market-Street, Baltimore.
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The man of real sensibility: or The history of Sir George Ellison.: [Five lines from Sterne]
1800, Printed [by Adams & Wilder?] for Chapman Whitcomb.
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The man of real sensibility, or, The history of Sir George Ellison: founded on fact.
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The man of real sensibility, or, The history of Sir George Ellison: founded on fact.
1797, Printed by H. Kammerer, Jun.
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The man of real sensibility, or, The history of Sir George Ellison: founded on fact.
1797, Printed by John Johnson
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The man of real sensibility: or, The history of Sir George Ellison.: Founded on fact. : [Six lines from Sterne]
1797, Printed by H. Kammerer, Jun.
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The man of real sensibility: or, The history of Sir George Ellison ...
1774, Printed by James Humphreys, junr. in Front-street
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The man of real sensibility: or The history of Sir George Ellison.: [Six lines from Sterne]
1774, Printed by James Humphreys, Junr. in Front-Street.
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The history of Sir George Ellison: In two volumes....
1766, Printed for A. Millar,...
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-235).
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"Sir George Ellison's father was the younger son of an ancient and opulent family; but receiving only that small proportion of his father's wealth, which, according to the custom of this country, usually falls to the share of a younger child, his posterity had little chance of inheriting any considerable fortune from him; though he had, by the profession in which he was place, been enabled to live genteelly."
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