A New Academy of Complements: or the compleat English secretary ... To which is added The art of good breeding and behaviour ... with a collection of the newest play-house songs

A New Academy of Complements: or the compleat English secretary ... To which is added The art of good breeding and behaviour ... with a collection of the newest play-house songs PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Catalogue of Printed Books

Catalogue of Printed Books PDF Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Catalogue of Printed Books

Catalogue of Printed Books PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 492

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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

British Museum Catalogue of printed Books PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Catalogue of Printed Books

Catalogue of Printed Books PDF Author: British Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 682

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The 'perpetual fair'

The 'perpetual fair' PDF Author: Anne Wohlcke
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526101130
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were important in the lives of ordinary Londoners as sites of women’s work, sociability, and local and national identity formation. Rarely studied as vital to London’s modernisation, urban fairs are a microcosm of London’s transforming society, demonstrating how metropolitan changes were popularly contested. This study contributes to our understanding of popular culture and modernisation in Britain during the formative years of its global empire. Fascinating examples drawn from literary and visual culture make this an engaging study for scholars and students of late Stuart and early Georgian Britain, urban and gender history, World’s Fairs and cultural studies.

William Gilpin’s Letter-Writer

William Gilpin’s Letter-Writer PDF Author: Alain Kerhervé
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443868019
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Among the numerous letter-writing manuals which were printed in eighteenth-century Britain, a few were authored by such famous novelists as Samuel Richardson or Daniel Defoe. The present volume is a first-time edition of an autograph manual devised by William Gilpin, commonly known as one of the theoreticians of the picturesque, which he intended either for individual use in the schools he was teaching or for publication. The manual was exclusively devised for boys and men. Although its primary purpose was to provide models of letters on various occasions (at school, in apprenticeship, in debts, in mourning), its content is also partly fictional, since several groups of letters provide short stories about the lives of young soldiers writing home, reformed rakes making a fortune in India or fathers trying to correct their sons’ misdemeanours. The whole tone is highly moral, since the manual was also conceived as a work of edification. As such, it is an excellent counterpart to the correspondence which William Gilpin exchanged with his grandson, William Writes to William: The Correspondence of William Gilpin (1724–1804) and his Grandson William (1789–1811) (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). The manual is presented with an introduction, notes, index and appendix of a list of eighteenth-century letter-writing manuals, focusing on the issues of sources, society and epistolary writing.

Catalogue of Autographs, Etc

Catalogue of Autographs, Etc PDF Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London
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Languages : en
Pages : 386

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The Eighteenth Century

The Eighteenth Century PDF Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 928

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General Catalogue of Printed Books

General Catalogue of Printed Books PDF Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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