Search Results for George Owen Cambridge

... Burney at Twickenham, often, in fact, possibly even permanently as a daughter-in-law. Invitations to visit Cambridge house and the family estate at Twickenham Meadows, near Richmond Bridge, were frequent during the years between the first meeting of Richard Owen and his son George Owen Cambridge...

... brothers and sisters, with their children, as well as her extended family. Though unmar- ried at this time — ​she would marry General d’Arblay in 1793 — ​Burney had had a four-­year long relationship with George Owen Cambridge that had recently ended when he failed to propose to her...

...” in the cases of George Owen Cambridge and Stephen Digby, “until, the final and third time,” with Alexandre d’Arblay, “it comes to fruition” (“Epistolarity, 199 6 While Lady Llanover finds Burney crassly delusional, for Clark she is in need of the kind of compensation it seems we all crave: “Mankind...

... with the Bluestocking circle. Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Frances Burney Bluestockings women writers Elizabeth Carter Hester Chapone Elizabeth Montagu George Owen Cambridge Frances Burney's perception of the Bluestockings, the famous eighteenth-century women's literary circle, has...

...), and The Commentator (177). Much of what Furbank and Owens conclude seems very sound, based as it is on solidly attributed early poetry and the Review, but the casual movement back and forth between definite and only probable is disconcerting. 46. The Letters of Daniel Defoe, ed. George Harris Healey...

... of institutions, and their own complex structures.” 1 3 Since the unsettling of the Defoe canon by P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens, the authorship of the pamphlet and periodical writing associated with Defoe has remained vexed, and the novels, many of which were published anonymously, share this problem.14...

... it as a duet in his last scene to mark the royal blessing of a union. His couple, however, consists of Molly and Master Owen, whose parents—parodies of George II and Queen Caroline—at this point agree to their wedding. The audience, though, is well aware that Owen is marrying Molly only because three other...

... of the lesser gentry and those who merged with the professional classes9 Politeness, unsurprisingly, looms much larger, both in The Tatler and in this founding narrative of SGS, than its underpinning basis in wealth and the work that produces it (SGS Minute-Books, ed. Owen, vii–viii). Johnson...

..., Toronto, & London: Univ. of Toronto, 1999). Pp. 772. $80. isbn 0-8020-4287-2 Owen, David. Hume’s Reason (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1999). Pp. 234. $49.95. isbn 0-19-823831-2 Paley, Morton D. Portraits of Coleridge (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1999). Pp. 171. $65. isbn...

.... The aim of this courtship joke is clearly to ridicule the musical ensemble that was created when Owen went to Patrick and asked him to help his cousin, Bryan, a barber, to serenade “a pretty Girl in Swan-Yard.” And in keeping with this satirical objective, this story ends with a peevish kitchen...

... there was almost no evidence over which to argue—but they should have objected vehemently to the lack of evidence. Not until 1988 was a serious challenge mounted by P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens in The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe. They followed up with a small book of de-attributions in 1994, and in 1998...

..., Rigging, Furnishing, & Fitting a Ship for Sea (London: E. Owen, 1750). 35. Peter Walmsley, “Robinson Crusoe's Canoes,” Eighteenth-Century Life 43.1 (2019): 1–23; the quotation is from 1. 36. John Considine, Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage...

... is the “Bawdy House” Riots of 668, in which the traditional Shrove Tuesday anti-brothel disturbances quickly metamorphosed into a political attack on the king (74 – 8 Turning back to the carnival atmosphere of the theatre, we might recall Susan J. Owen’s recent argument for the presence of Whig...

... and J. Walthoe, Jun., 1718), 174. 36. Daniel Defoe, The Dyet of Poland, A Satyr [1705], in Satire, Fantasy, and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, ed. W. R. Owens (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2003), 379, ll. 1262 – 63. 37. As suggested by South, in Memoirs, 30 – 35. 38...

...: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Pp. x + 229. $75. ISBN 978-0-230-57452-6 Books Received      123 Owen, Susan J., ed. A Companion to Restoration Drama (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008). Pp. xvi + 456. $45 paper. ISBN 978-1-4051-7610-1 Oya, Reiko...

... their initials, or parts of their names. Some writers were easier to identify than others from these clues: while “L. M. W. M “R. O. C and “J. H. S.” could only ever signify Lady Mary Wortley Mon- tagu, Richard Owen Cambridge, and John Hall Stevenson, it was much more difficult to work out whether “Mr Ph...

... friends 62 Eighteenth-Century Life with Owen Swiney, the manager of the Haymarket Theater, and had social and political associations with the lord chamberlain, the official responsible for licensing theaters and censoring plays. In short, Maynwaring provided for Oldfield, who was only three...

... characters yet. The tale could be read as o†ering the most explicit proto-feminist statement in Burney’s work. It has signišcance as an early example of a female castaway narrative in which the “women are shown acting independently.” In C. M. Owen’s words, it “addressed a woman’s capacity to act...

... language of English added to London’s mag- netism. Writers joined actors and artists from Ireland who headed to Lon- don in order to win fame and fortune. Successes like William Congreve, George Farquhar, or Owen McSwiney emboldened others. McSwiney, a theatrical and operatic impresario in London...

... attempted “by Menaces & Ill Useage to get Spirituous Liquors” in defi- ance of the Gin Act of 1736.58 At the next level were the various public houses and other drinking establishments, and once again we find women among their customers. Winifred Owen told a jury that “Eleanor Okley, Jane Miller...