by Wendy Moore
Really well-written & researched, though the topic makes for difficult reading. I enjoyed the obvious comparison's to Galatea/Pygmalion.I disagree with Moore's assertion at the end that Day was just misguided & not wicked, because I couldn't help but compare him to modern kidnappers like the late Ar...
This book relates the bizarre tale of Thomas Day, wealthy English gentleman of the Enlightenment, who was obsessed with the educational theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. So much so that he kidnapped two orphans, with the goal of raising them so that one of them would become his wife, who would liv...
Thomas Day (1748-1789) was a lawyer, abolitionist and author. His first published work, a poem The Dying Negro (1773), co written with his friend John Bicknell was one of the first pieces of literature that attacked slavery and encouraged by his friend Richard Lovell Edgeworth he wrote The History o...
What a strange man Thomas Day was, as I am sure you have already read in other reviews. Having worked in a male-dominated field and having been on a variety of dates, Day's views are not so infuriating as to toss the book aside, unlike my Mom who could not get passed chapter 2.The only thing that b...
to gen up on. to find. to weigh up
A wild look at the Enlightenment in England, through the experiments of Thomas Day, a man who was uncultured, rude and dishevelled who truly believed that women were inferior and took Rousseau much too seriously. This one was eye-opening, and very funny to read at times. Well-written, surprising and...
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