Abstract

This article considers what it meant to grow old gracefully as a woman in Britain the early nineteenth century by focusing on intergenerational relationships and mentoring. Despite ambivalent response figure of older woman, her potential mentor is frequently foregrounded advice literature this period. However, contrast prescriptive ideal, life writing Lady Louisa Stuart (1757�1851) provides rar...

The Edinburgh surgeon-apothecary and physician George Young was an empiric who emphasised observation, practical experience and a sceptical approach to evidence in medicine. He was an early member of the Rankenian Club, a group of young intellectuals whose ideas were to be at the heart of Scottish Enlightenment thinking. Young certainly influenced his pupil Robert Whytt, who went on to make imp...