...Amy Dunagin The first two sustained efforts to chronicle the history of English music were conducted independently during the 1710s and 1720s by Thomas Tudway and Roger North. They wrote in the context of the escalating popularity of Italian opera in England. Their histories also resonated...

... grace” (ll. 198–206). Roger North remem- bered Charles many years later for just this trait: “no king ever exposed himself, to Attempts upon his Person, as he continually did, even to a Fault; and no Instance can be shewed, of an Act of personal Fear, that ever...

... Writing in England, 1780– 1830 (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana Univ., 2000). Pp. 208. $39.95. ISBN 0-253-33713-5 Millard, Peter, ed. Notes of Me: The Autobiography of Roger North (Toronto: Univ...

... and vicious, friends and enemies, ‘they learn the pratique of the world,’ as Roger North put it.”2 But the public school was fraught with evils. In the opinion of A. S. Turberville, Conditions at the great public schools in this period were very rough. Discipline was harsh; yet the boys were apt...

... (London: Penguin, 2006), 479 31.  Sir Dudley North, Discourses upon Trade (London: Tho. Basset, 1691), 22. There has been some controversy about the possible contributions of Sir Dudley’s brother Roger to the Discourse. It is probable that Roger, also a Tory, wrote the introduction while...

... 2006 by Duke University Press 1 2 Eighteenth-Century Life of the Mediterranean.”2 Though Ferguson had visited North America, and was celebrated as the author of a history of Republican Rome, he had not previously traveled to Italy. Now, in old age, he made Rome...

...Bruce P. Lenman Emerson Roger L. . An Enlightened Duke: The Life of Archibald Campbell (1682–1761), Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of Argyll . ( Kilkerran : Humming Earth , 2013 ), Pp. xvii + 553 . $40 hardcover. £24.95 paper Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

... Revolution (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina, 2008). Pp. x + 613. 20 ills. $45. ISBN 978-0-807-83168-7 Ewalt, Margaret. Peripheral Wonders: Nature, Knowledge, and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Orinoco (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ., 2008). Pp. 258. 7 ills. $55. ISBN 978-0-838...

..., and Nicholas Rogers share the view that the press, particularly in treating Lady Geor- giana, fifth Duchess of Devonshire, was largely concerned with defining what was acceptable female participation in elections. Representations of the duchess and her fellow female...

.... of Chicago, 2009). Pp. xi + 337. 8 ills. $40 Ekirch, A. Roger. Birthright: The True Story that Inspired “Kidnapped” (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010). Pp. xxiii + 258. 27 ills. $24.95 Favret, Mary A. War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 2010...

... caprices?” [How could you have thought me credulous enough to imagine that I was brought into this world only to adore your every capricious desire Crit- ics who argue for a protofeminist Lettres persanes tend to view letter 161 as the key to all that precedes it, as when Katherine Rogers writes...

...- Century Life Volume 45, Number 2, April 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8902705 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 7 4 A Variable Account of Blindness in the Eighteenth Century D. Christopher Gabbard University of North Florida Chris Mounsey. Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth- Century...

... hinted at the size of the North American continent, the extent of the Australian landmass would not be confirmed until Flinders completed a circumnavigation in 1802–3.3 If the British government did not, until that point, understand the vastness of the land it claimed...

... have been, as Pat Rogers has claimed, a nineteenth-­century invention, but the conditions under which the transformation was made possible — ​the attribution of authorship — ​occurred in the world of the late eighteenth-­century book trade (4). Because attribution is a process that depends upon...

... Crèvecœur's book weighed in to promote the North American colonies. In the collection of manuscript essays Crèvecœur presented to London publisher Davis and Davies in 1781, some described plagues ruining crops, or swarms biting colonists, but these texts were passed over, and not published until the 1920s...

...DeeAnn DeLuna The College of William & Mary 2004 Robinson Crusoe, Virginal Hero of the Commercial North DeeAnn DeLuna Johns Hopkins University A Man is to be executed...

... to the Black Swan, the North Side of St Paul’s Churchyard,” while Esther’s was at the east end, “opposite the Old Jewry in the Poultry.” The Poultry (previously the mar- ket for fowl) is the eastern extension of Cheapside, spanning the short dis- tance between the Mercers’ Hall, home of the wealthiest...

... Austen. Sense and Sensibility , ed. Edward Copeland. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. lxx + 500. 2 ills. $140, £72. ISBN 0-521-82436-2 Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice , ed. Pat Rogers. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen...

... in his private writings to return the favor.1 His diary entry begins, “Nov. 18. — ​Was introduced by [Samuel] Rogers to Mad. d’Arblay, the cel- ebrated authoress of Evelina and Cecilia — ​an elderly lady, with no remains of personal beauty, but with a simple and gentle manner, a pleasing expres...

... in commentary on Byron by Jerome McGann Digital Editing and the Eighteenth-Century Text     5 9 and on Pope by Pat Rogers.4 But these investigations can be taken further. The contemporary comments and examples discussed in this essay indi- cate that the ordering of works within miscellaneous...