Mary Anne Rawson's The Bow in the Cloud (1834): A Scholarly EditionMain MenuEditor's IntroductionEditor's IntroductionThe Published AnthologyContains all of the pieces published in the anthology, with an editor's noteSelected Unpublished PiecesTranscriptions of some unpublished pieces sent to RawsonText analysisResults of analysing the anthology and its manuscriptsNetwork AnalysisNetwork analysis prototypes, including a network graph of connections in the archiveMap of PlacenamesA map of all places associated with pieces in the anthologyPeople MentionedBow in the Cloud: PersonographyFurther ReadingsA Bibliography of sources relating to this projectThis project was supported by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication in 2023/2024 (FEL-289788). Find project data on GitHub.
Allusion to Luke 6.1
12025-01-07T16:47:14+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c3761611plain2025-01-07T16:47:14+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Macaulay is alluding to Luke 6.1: 'And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.'
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12024-01-08T14:30:13+00:00Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay to George Rawson (English MS 415/159)14Letter from Lord Macaulay to George Rawson declining to contribute to The Bow in the Cloud. Contains an interesting question on Sir Andrew Agnew's 'Lord's Day Bill' and how he and Mrs Rawson argued about it in Hanover Square. Letter published in Pinney's Cambridge UP letters edition (Vol. 2).plain2025-01-08T13:20:28+00:00 London April 6. 1833
My dear Sir,
I should be most truly glad to comply with any request of yours. But I really am so much occupied, or rather overwhelmed by business of different kinds that it will, I fear, be quite out of my power to write any thing you your friend's collection. I have no fragment by me which would be of the least use to her.
I am truly glad to hear that your cough has departed and that you have had so long and so quiet a holiday. What do you think of Sir Andrew Agnew's Lord's Day Bill? The Lord's Day Bill... And what does Mrs Rawson think of it? We had an argument on the subject, I remember, at Hanover Square. I am favorable to temperate legislation on the subject. But this measure seems to have been framed by persons very much of the temper of those who forbade the disciples to rub the ears of corn in their hands.
Remember me kindly to all your family, and believe me ever,