Susan Manly's guest appearances

Susan Manly

Lectures in Intellectual History

The Curiosity Conversation

Benjamin Franklin

Tom Jones

Ryan Hanley

James Harris

David Hume

David Weinstein

Philip Schofield

Jeremy Bentham

George Berkeley

Nick Phillipson

Jacqueline Rose

Katrina Forrester

Quentin Skinner

Susan James

Joanne Paul

OwlTail

Maria Edgeworth

The issue of slavery is a constant in Maria Edgeworth's thinking about questions of government, from the beginning of her writing career until the 1820s and 30s. In this paper, Susan Manly discusses the multiple elements to this seam of thinking, and in particular examines the importance of the reformist thinker Jeremy Bentham and his French interlocutor Étienne Dumont.

Susan Manly - Maria Edgeworth as political thinker: government, rebellion and punishment