... evidence. Both works, the Memoirs of an Oxford Scholar (1756) and Genuine Memoirs of Maria Brown (1766), are nevertheless indebted to Cleland’s work. This article starts by examining the canny, fraudulent marketing of these eighteenth-century erotic novels after Fanny Hill ’s revival, including...

... above illustrate, is one in a long line of writ- ers and scholars who have perpetuated the myth of loss, and have turned the “but little known” into the “unknown” and “passed by in silence.” How- ever, the existence of these two variants of his preface to the Memoirs of Several Ladies...

... community and within a culture of mixed literacies. The work has received some attention from scholars in the past two decades, most notably from the economic historian John Money, whose 2010 edition of the text was published as the two-volume The Chronicles of John Cannon by Oxford University Press...

... London, 998), 03 – 04. 30. Samuel Johnson, “On the Bravery of the English Common Soldier,” in Samuel Johnson, ed. Donald Greene (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 984), 550. 3. The memoir also implies that the nobility in opposition to the current Walpole regime were better patrons to Davies...

... at < httporlando. cambridge.org/ >. 12. Frances Burney, Memoirs of Doctor Burney, 3 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1832), 1:vii. 13. Claire Brock, The Feminization of Fame: 1750 – ​1830 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 136. 14. Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney (Oxford: Clarendon, 1958), 466, hereafter...

... biographical work, Burney assumes the narrative pose of editor: her father’s memoirs are “arranged from his own manu - scripts, from family papers, and from personal recollections” (Mem, :fron- tispiece). However, as many scholars have pointed out, these “manuscripts” and “family papers” are extensively...

... in Nineteenth- Century Literature (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2007), 32. 32. King-Hele, Erasmus Darwin, 300. 33. David Knight, Ordering the World: A History of Classifying Man (London: Burnett Books, 1981), 58 – 59. 34. Seward, Memoirs, 178. As can be seen, in this quotation and elsewhere, while...

..., . Amy King, Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel (Oxford: Oxford Univ., . Leah Knight, Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth- Century Plants and Print Culture (Farnham: Ashgate, xi. Frances Burney, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, ed. Peter Sabor...

... of recent scholars, biography failed to establish any theoretical foundations upon which to build or to engage with prac- tical questions of selection, organization, or presentation. 2 This is surpris- ing now that the standard online databases reveal the presence, from the beginning of the eighteenth...

... al., Volume I: 1770–1799 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2000), 46–47. 5. Qtd. in Memoirs of Modern Philosophers, ed. Claire Grogan (Peterborough: Broadview, 2000), 411. The Anti-Jacobin showed its disdain for Emma Courtney by reducing the moral of the novel to “the mistress is, in all respects...

..., & scarcely ever left me, but to quiet a fractious child who was just taken from nurse” (CB Mem, Charles, even after his removal to Canonbury, probably would have returned to Fenchurch Street to continue teaching his three (female) musical scholars (LCB, An experienced apprentice like Mary Kenn...

... finances. Unknown to Hemlow or to subsequent scholars, however, another key document in the National Archives throws new light on these matters: “Burney's Legacy Duty Account,” dated 19 October 1840, thanks to which we now have complete information about her finances at the time of her death. 2...

... by scholars.37 Memoirs of various sorts are equally tempting to the context-hungry scholar—and at least as treacherous a source. Biographies by Edmund Curll’s hack writers, rushed into print soon after the demise of the sub- ject, are notoriously untrustworthy—as witness the accounts he published...

... of the Arts and Sciences,” in Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1987), 111–37, especially 130–33. 21. William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2013), 247. 22.  William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author...

... Hutton, Memoir, 248. 61. See John Mullan, Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988), and Janet Todd, Sensibility: An Introduction (London: Methuen, 1986). 62. Lawrence E. Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness...

...” (189). 30. Aphra Behn, Works, 3:208. 31. The biographical hypothesis that Behn and Mancini engaged in a romantic affair stems primarily from the sentiments expressed in Behn’s History of the Nun dedication. 32. While some scholars believe that Mancini’s Mémoires were essentially...

...; left Oxford; met James Keir; met Darwin and Whitehurst; traveled with Edgeworth to Ire- land; began keeping terms at Middle Temple while, apparently, living with Bicknell; gave his first political speech to Westminster electors “at the hustings” (Edgeworth, Memoirs, 1:48); and tried...

...Vincent Carretta Adams Catherine Pleck Elizabeth H. . Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England ( New York : Oxford Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. xi + 265. 10 ills . $21.95 paper Chater Kathleen . Untold Histories: Black People in England...

... to violation, which does not count as a crime. 10 Scholars including David Oakleaf, S. J. Connelly, and Christopher Fox, agree that Swift s lifelong interest in . . . the civil wars . . . can legiti- mately be called an obsession, and they have documented the very personal ways in which the wars a³ected his...

..., in which are included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, ed. James L. Cliff ord (London: Oxford Univ., 1964), 429. 12. John Shebbeare, The Marriage Act [1754] (New York: Garland, 1974): 2: 262 – 63. 13. For a discussion of Clarence Hervey’s plan, see Marilyn Butler, Maria Edgeworth...