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About the author
Martin Fitzpatrick is a graduate of Aberystwyth University. He subsequently joined the staff of the History department, where he taught for many years. He works on the history of ideas in the late eighteenth century and is particularly interested in comparative dimensions of the English and Scottish Enlightenments. His publications concern the life and thought of Joseph Priestley and Richard Price, Rational Dissent (especially its relationship with radicalism), the theme of toleration, and the nature of the Enlightenment. In 1977, he was a co-founder, with Dr D. O. Thomas, of the Price-Priestley Newsletter and subsequently of the journal Enlightenment and Dissent.
Emma Macleod was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and she has taught at the University of Stirling since 1996. She has published widely on British attitudes to America and France during the Revolutionary period, and she is now working on a comparative study of the political trials in the 1790s in the Anglophone North Atlantic world alongside co-editing The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence, 1750-1810. She was co-editor of the Scottish Historical Review (2018-23).
Anthony Page is a graduate of La Trobe and Adelaide Universities, and has lectured in History at the University of Tasmania since 2002. He has published on the impact of war on eighteenth-century Britain and the role of unitarian Rational Dissent in campaigns for religious, antislavery, and political reform. He is author of John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism (2003), Britain and the Seventy Years War, 1744-1815 (2015), and co-edited Blackstone and His Critics (2018), with Wilfrid Prest.
Summary
The Birmingham banker Samuel Kenrick and Reverend James Wodrow of Ayrshire met as students at the University of Glasgow in the 1740s, and corresponded for over six decades. Covering the years 1784-1790, this is the second of four volumes of the letters of Samuel Kenrick and Rev. James Wodrow of Ayrshire.
