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...James Grehan Sajdi Dana . The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant . ( Stanford : Stanford Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xv + 293 . $60 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay The World...

... the period. Aileen Douglas assesses the motivations and achievements of figures such as Mary Barber and Constantia Grierson, among others. Specifically, Douglas considers Barber's Poems on Several Occasions (1735) as “a transitional, hybrid work, both in terms of gender and nation” (229). Heavily...

... in our mess that my assistance is not at all necessary to keep the Scotch Doctor in perfect good order as to Politics, I heard an extraordinary discourse between this Doct. & the Ships barber who joins to that occu­ pation the business of a shoe maker carpenter sail maker & a perfect good Seaman...

... journeyman apprentices. 6 A moderately sized market town like Northampton could support its own wigmaker, and even village barbers would have some knowledge of how to fashion a peruke.7 The practice was nearly universal among Englishmen. Although the dates of the wig tracts, and hence...

... and accessible to modern readers, one might have wished more equally interesting female poets had been included, or that more samples of their work had been included. The anthology provides double doses of James Orr, Drummond, and Whyte, but only single works by female poets. Barber’s “To a Lady Who...

...- ifestation in compassion or pity— which accounts for this paradoxical condition. As Benjamin Barber puts it, “The imagination by virtue of which we pervert our innocence and deprave our natural simplicity is also the faculty by virtue of which we overcome our perversity...

... publishers and printers: the Benjamin Tookes (both father and son), the Benjamin Mottes (again father and son), John Barber, Edward Waters, John and Sarah Hyde, John and Sarah Harding, and George Faulkner, among others. She ties together research by earlier scholars: that John Harding had been Edward...

... of the undertaker had been emerging from the late sixteenth century. This rise in funeral contracting is evidenced in the annals of the barber-surgeons who for centuries exercised strict domain over the right to embalm and who in the seventeenth century took measures to see that their members were fit...

... reference to being “first of [Martin's] slaves” as a window into seeing how women writers throughout this period relied on the language of captivity to express their own domestic bondage (35). From Mary Barber, to Mary Collier, to Sarah Fyge Egerton, these women writers “drew an explicit comparison...

... London Gazette (22 26 September 1789): 621. Like the later partnership of Henry Nunn with John Barber, Nunn and Crucifix appear to have set up a temporary shop in Weymouth to coincide with this royal visit. See DQC, 257, the entry for 12 September 1794. 25. See note 21. 26. Frances Burney, later d...

..., eighteenth-century poets considered their peers as inferior insofar as they lacked Latin and a classical education. Constantia Grierson's “Verses Occasioned by Mrs. Barber's Son Speaking Latin in School, to Less Advantage than English ,” for example, portrays Apollo as intervening to deny the poet Mary...

..., especially 67. 2. Spence, Accidentally Killed by a Cart: Workplace, Hazard, and Risk in Late Seventeenth Century London, European Review of History 3 (1996): 9 26. 3. Margaret Pelling, Appearance and Reality: Barber- Surgeons, the Body, and Disease, in London 1500 1700: The Making of the Metropolis...

... 0-8018-8125-0 Merton, Robert K., and Elinor Barber. The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 2004). Pp. 313. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-11754-3 Milton, Giles. White Gold: The Extraordinary Story...

... Sajdi, Dana. The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 2013). Pp. xv + 293. $60 Schmid, Susanne. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Pp. xi...

... in Europa im achtzehnten Jahrhundert, ed. Giles Barber and Bernhard Fabian (Hamburg: Hauswedell, 1981), 81 – 126. 2. ESTC lists four self-styled London editions (1765, 1767, 1775, 1794) in addition to editions of Dublin in 1766, and another in London and Frankfurt in 1770. The 1765 edition...

... friends of the Weymouths. Another example of the influ- ence of Rowe’s circle is the subscription list for Mary Barber’s Poems on Several Occasions (London: C. Rivington, 1734), which includes: the earl and countess of Hertford, Alexander Pope, Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe...

...-Barbers, Fleet Parsons, Psalm- singing Clerks, and Apprentice-Boys, who every Monday Night make no inconsiderable Figure on the Side of Infidelity, and deliver their Sentiments in a Diction so pure, that few, if any, can tell what they drive at.8 A substantial number...

.... In Boswell's 1791 Life of Samuel Johnson , ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1980), Boswell emphasizes Johnson's antipathy to life and labor in ships, caused, in part, by Johnson's erroneous belief that his servant, Francis Barber, had been impressed on board a merchant frigate (246–47). I have...

... of miserable-looking patients seated in chairs and waiting for the dentist, who is removing a tooth from another client’s mouth with disconcerting violence, apparently without regard to the patient’s evident discomfort. At the head of this line, in profile, is a barber’s blockhead on a floor stand...

... 10/19/01, 3:34 PM 52 heated? How were the women inmates in the Bethlem hospital segregated from the men? Did they ever see each other? Would a man on a moderate income visit the barber’s every day? How much would it cost him? (p. 382...