...Ana M. Acosta The College of William & Mary 2003 ECL27102-Acosta.q4.jw.SH 4/14/03 2:10 PM Page 1 Spaces of Dissent and the Public Sphere in Hackney, Stoke Newington, and Newington Green...

... for the Stoke Newington Edition of Daniel Defoe. He published no monograph. 6 4 Eighteenth-Century Life His most important contribution to eighteenth- century studies and it is a mighty one is his service on The Eighteenth- Century Current Bibliography (also known as ECCB: The Eighteenth Century: A Current...

... at St. George’s, London, Day grew up the only child and heir of Thomas and Jane Day, who managed what Gignilliat calls a “prosperous middle-class” existence in London’s east side (Author, p. 3). After Day senior died in 1749, Jane and baby Day moved to the Stoke Newington section of London, where...

... with the metropolis. The dissenting academies in London played a crucial role in connect- ing the metropolis to the provinces. Many of the significant literary ac- quaintances Rowe made stemmed from the connections between the acad- emy at Newington Green in London...

...- able for investors. His Dissenting views are well established: he received an education from Charles Morton’s dissenting academy at Newington Green, and wrote pieces criticizing the Anglican Church.39 Defoe wrote anti-­Catholic propaganda both before and after the Crusoe trilogy, and he...

...: “When he was at home with his family — ​which was not often — ​he liked to lay down the law and resented resistance to his authority. The children, as they grew up, resented his treatment of their mother; there were family quarrels. . . . No, family life at Stoke Newington was not happy” (175...