tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312144660782900333.post4253932598535587296..comments2024-03-06T10:35:14.033+00:00Comments on The Grub Street Lodger: Roy Porter's Enlightenment, at the Samuel Johnson Reading CircleGrubStLodgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688293269271572695noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312144660782900333.post-10946279302779416682018-05-30T22:52:47.874+01:002018-05-30T22:52:47.874+01:00I think I missed this comment when it was created ...I think I missed this comment when it was created - thanks for commenting, I'll check out the book, only 2 years late.GrubStLodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688293269271572695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312144660782900333.post-62766875092777626712016-02-02T18:08:27.453+00:002016-02-02T18:08:27.453+00:00I found your blog after googling 'Theodore of ...I found your blog after googling 'Theodore of Corsica' to provide some background for a Tumblr post (http://londondevils.tumblr.com/post/138284570343/belzingburst). <br /><br />Not only did I find just what I needed, I then clicked to your latest post and found... Thomas Day!<br /><br />I love Thomas Day, in a 'horrified fascination' sort of way. His wife-training project hints at the dark side of the Enlightenment: cf Edgeworth on the unfitness of the English working class to receive Liberty etc: ‘In England to make a carte blanche fit to receive the proper impression, you must grind all the old rags down to purify them.’ Brrr!<br /><br />Day is also a prime inspiration for one of the main characters in a novel I've just finished co-writing (Devil's Blood, David Fickling Books, out 5th May - https://prenticeandweil.wordpress.com/), for which the Tumblr blog is a side project. Sorry for the shameless plug, but the coincidence seemed too good not to follow up on. I didn't know Day died the way he did. Hugely apposite. Our character actually suffers a (sort of) similar fate...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05496480956226655757noreply@blogger.com