Author: Sir John Sinclair
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Category : Agriculturists
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart
Author: Sir John Sinclair
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Category : Agriculturists
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculturists
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair
Author: Sir John Sinclair
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Category : Agriculturists
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculturists
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Memoirs of the life and works of ... sir John Sinclair, bart
Author: John Sinclair
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Languages : en
Pages : 816
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The Literary Manuscripts and Letters of Hannah More
Author: Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351886630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The result of extensive archival investigation, this meticulously researched book collects and describes for the first time the extant literary manuscripts and letters of the celebrated Bluestocking writer and Evangelical philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). Participating in the ongoing recovery of eighteenth-century women writers, Nicholas D. Smith's survey is an indispensable reference work not only for More scholars but for those researching the careers of many of her contemporaries. Features include an extended narrative analysis of the manuscripts that plots More's participation in the manuscript culture of the period and contextualizes the individual entries in the index; provenance details for the more substantial manuscript holdings in British and North American repositories; and identification of numerous autograph manuscripts and transcripts in public and private collections. More than 1,500 letters in 95 locations in Britain and North America have been inventoried and precise dates and internal locators are supplied when known. More's letters, the majority of which have never been published, are a largely untapped source of primary materials for scholars and students researching such diverse subjects as the literary activities and opinions of the Bluestocking circle, women's conduct and education, publishing and the book trade, the national debate over the abolition of the slave trade, the rise of the Evangelical movement, the conservative reaction to the American and French revolutions, and the Napoleonic wars.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351886630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The result of extensive archival investigation, this meticulously researched book collects and describes for the first time the extant literary manuscripts and letters of the celebrated Bluestocking writer and Evangelical philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). Participating in the ongoing recovery of eighteenth-century women writers, Nicholas D. Smith's survey is an indispensable reference work not only for More scholars but for those researching the careers of many of her contemporaries. Features include an extended narrative analysis of the manuscripts that plots More's participation in the manuscript culture of the period and contextualizes the individual entries in the index; provenance details for the more substantial manuscript holdings in British and North American repositories; and identification of numerous autograph manuscripts and transcripts in public and private collections. More than 1,500 letters in 95 locations in Britain and North America have been inventoried and precise dates and internal locators are supplied when known. More's letters, the majority of which have never been published, are a largely untapped source of primary materials for scholars and students researching such diverse subjects as the literary activities and opinions of the Bluestocking circle, women's conduct and education, publishing and the book trade, the national debate over the abolition of the slave trade, the rise of the Evangelical movement, the conservative reaction to the American and French revolutions, and the Napoleonic wars.
'The People Are Not There'
Author: David Taylor
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788855221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and sporting estates, agricultural improvement and proprietorial greed, and the evolution of clanship. Although this is an intensely localised study, the dramatic nature of change is explored against the wider context of events not just across the Highlands, but also within the British state and its global empire. Badenoch's journey moves from the relative prosperity of the Napoleonic Wars into the terrible post-war destitution that devastated peasant, tacksman and Duke of Gordon alike. Estate reform and 'improvement' gradually brought a degree of economic and social stability, but inevitably resulted in depopulation as people were forced off the land to seek refuge in the impoverished 'planned villages' or to abandon their Gaelic homeland for life in the Lowlands. For those with the means, however, emigration provided lucrative opportunities unimaginable at home. Through extensive use of documentary evidence, much of it previously unseen, David Taylor paints an intimate portrait of the historically neglected region of Badenoch – one that provides a compelling new perspective on Highland history.
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788855221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and sporting estates, agricultural improvement and proprietorial greed, and the evolution of clanship. Although this is an intensely localised study, the dramatic nature of change is explored against the wider context of events not just across the Highlands, but also within the British state and its global empire. Badenoch's journey moves from the relative prosperity of the Napoleonic Wars into the terrible post-war destitution that devastated peasant, tacksman and Duke of Gordon alike. Estate reform and 'improvement' gradually brought a degree of economic and social stability, but inevitably resulted in depopulation as people were forced off the land to seek refuge in the impoverished 'planned villages' or to abandon their Gaelic homeland for life in the Lowlands. For those with the means, however, emigration provided lucrative opportunities unimaginable at home. Through extensive use of documentary evidence, much of it previously unseen, David Taylor paints an intimate portrait of the historically neglected region of Badenoch – one that provides a compelling new perspective on Highland history.
Memoirs of the life and works of the late Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart
Author: John SINCLAIR (Archdeacon of Middlesex.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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More Letters of Edward FitzGerald
Author: Edward FitzGerald
Publisher: Folcroft Library Editions
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Publisher: Folcroft Library Editions
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Scottish Nation
Author: William Anderson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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