James Henry Lawrence

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James Henry Lawrence (* 1773 , † 26. September 1840 in London ) was a British author of the early 18th century.

Life

James Lawrence was born in 1773 to a plantation owner in Jamaica . His paternal ancestors had come to the island in 1676, while his mother's ancestors, Mary Brissett, were from Worcestershire .

After studying in Eton , Göttingen and Braunschweig , he stayed in Weimar, among others, and associated with Goethe until his death .

Influenced by Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman , published in 1792 , he wrote the essay On the Advantages of the System of Gallantry and Succession at the Nayren , which Wieland published in 1793 in his journal Der Neue Teutsche Merkur . Based on a description of the maternal line of succession among the South Indian Nayar , Lawrence pleads for the equal education of women and the repeal of restrictive marriage laws in favor of freely chosen love relationships and an inheritance law based on female descendants.

His novel Das Paradies der Liebe , based on the essay , was first published in 1801 by Johann Friedrich Unger . Lawrence later translated the text into English and French with some changes. He also published some poems and, together with Anne Plumbtre, translate works by August von Kotzebue into English. In France, Lawrence was arrested with his father and other Englishmen in 1803 and held in Verdun . After his escape he published a report about this time back in England in 1810. In Paris, Lawrence earned the title of Knight of Malta and was later referred to as Sir James Lawrence or Chevalier Lawrence . In 1828 he published a collection of several of his writings entitled The Etonian out of Bounds . His book On the Nobility of the British Gentry on the position of British gentlemen appeared in several editions until 1840.

Lawrence last lived in London's Regent Street and died unmarried on September 26, 1840 and, like his father, was buried at St. John's Wood Church.

Works

  • On the advantages of the system of gallantry and succession among the nayras . In: The new Teutsche Merkur. 1793, Volume 2 pp. 160-199 and 242-257
  • The paradise of love . 1801, Unger, Berlin (novel in twelve books)
  • Love . In: Irene. 1801 (poem in the magazine published by Gerhard Anton von Halem 1801–1806)
  • A Picture of Verdun, or the English detained in France . 2 volumes, 1810
  • The Etonian out of bounds; or, poetry and prose . London: Hunt. 2 volumes, 1828
  • On the Nobility of the British Gentry (2nd edition 1827, 4th edition 1840)

literature

  • Literature by and about James Henry Lawrence in the catalog of the German National Library .
  • Richard Garnett and Nigel Leask (Eds.): Lawrence, James Henry, known as Chevalier Lawrence (1773-1840) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . (in the 1885–1900 edition also on Wikisource ).
  • Walter F. Schirrmer: Goethe's English guests. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. August 29, 1971, pp. 51-52.
  • Michael Davis, Iain McCalman, Christina Parolin: James Lawrence . In: Newgate in Revolution . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005, pp. 37-39 .
  • Anne Verjus; Une société sans pères peut-elle être féministe?: L'empire des Nairs de James H. Lawrence. French Historical Studies August 1, 2019; 42 (3): 359-389. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7558292 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Verjus: Une société sans pères peut-elle être féministe? L'empire des Nairs de James H. Lawrence . In: French Historical Studies . tape 42 , no. 3 , August 1, 2019, ISSN  0016-1071 , p. 359–389 , doi : 10.1215 / 00161071-7558292 ( dukeupress.edu [accessed August 11, 2019]).
  2. ^ Medwin Thomas: The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley . London: Thomas Cautley Newby (1847), 97 .
personal data
SURNAME Lawrence, James Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH 1773
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1840
Place of death London