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“The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Abigail Williams; Anna Marar This paper will focus on the Chronicles of John Cannon, a ploughboy turned exciseman and writing master living in the Somerset levels who described himself as a “Tennis Ball of Fortune.” Cannon's story of self‐education and writerly self‐fashioning took striking...
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Capturing the Queen: Establishing Agency through Narrative Strategies and Royal Materiality in Charlotte Papendiek's Memoirs
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Susan Kubica Howard Writing in the popular nineteenth‐century genre of queens’ lives, Charlotte Papendiek's memoirs, published under the title Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte , chronicle both the life of the queen as well as that of Papendiek. Papendiek establishes her agency...
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“Cannot You Trust God for a Sermon?”: Anti-Methodists and the Rhetoric of Methodist Spirituality
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 76–98.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Andrew Black The anxiety of the eighteenth-century establishment church to the growing phenomenon of Methodism is chronicled in over nine hundred anti- Methodist texts published between 1738 and 1800. Anti-Methodist literature attempts to explain a dissident movement that challenged the supremacy...
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Tory Defenses of English Music: Thomas Tudway and Roger North
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 36–65.
Published: 01 April 2016
...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...
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The World According to an Eighteenth-Century Barber
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 97–100.
Published: 01 September 2015
... aim of recasting the way we think about Ottoman Syria in
the eighteenth century. The second half of the book then turns to the barber’s
chronicle itself. Through a close reading of the text, Sajdi offers up a cultural
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The Storming of the Bastille in English Newspapers
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 50–81.
Published: 01 January 2005
... in use, “the
inspector general Necker having explicitly forbidden the practice in 1776”
(Lüsebrink and Reichardt, 30) — but they were what British subjects imag-
ined in 1789 when they heard of the Bastille
Th e English Chronicle
In July 1789 there were at least fourteen daily morning papers...
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Illustrated Pocket Diaries and the Commodification of Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
... that spanned a period of great cultural change, which saw
the introduction of significant technological innovations to the printing
trade. In November 1781, the London Courant and Westminster Chronicle
announced the publication of the second annual volume of William Pea-
cock’s upmarket, illustrated...
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The Centrality of Peripheries: The Orinoco Ilustrado and Imperial-Enlightened Knowledge
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 January 2012
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runs, and also one of the most important chronicles of its time, a work that was
to be amply consulted and quoted by other Jesuits as well as by many scientific
travelers such as Charles Marie de La Condamine, Jorge Juan, Antonio de
Úlloa, and Alexander von Humboldt. As Ewalt points out in her...
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“Genius Thus Munificently Employed!!!”: Philanthropy and Celebrity in the Theaters of Garrick and Siddons
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 55–84.
Published: 01 September 2013
... best measures the magnitude of an actor’s celebrity? For one
eighteenth-century theater critic from the London Chronicle, an important
gauge of fame came from receipts for benefit performances that were part
of the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund. In an article extolling the popular-
ity of Sarah...
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Vortigern, Rowena, and the Ancient Britons: Historical Art and the Anglicization of National Origin
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2000
... from a de-
sign of Mortimer’s) representing Rowena in the act of presenting wine to
Vortigern, and which hung over the chimneypiece in Mr. Ireland’s study,
suddenly attracted my attention. In consequence, when alone I took down
Mr. Ireland’s edition of Holinshed’s Chronicle...
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Richmond’s Rhetoric and Chatham’s Collapse: A Media History
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., the Morning Chronicle, however, Henry’s brother William Woodfall
presented a rather different version of the Chatham-Richmond exchange.
According to that account, Chatham proposed an almost satanic conspiracy
threatening the throne: “something in the dark, something lurking near
the throne...
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Male Oratory and Female Prate: “Then Hush and Be an Angel Quite”
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 January 2005
... and Fridays, “A Lecture
on Heads,” as well as “With Theatrical Imitations,” at the assembly room
of the King’s Arms Tavern in Cornhill, where the King’s Arms Society
held its debates (Morning Chronicle, 26 February 1781). These exhibitions
by actresses pretending to be venturesome young ladies make...
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Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents: A Case Study
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
... an ascetic order, and the chronicle of the order frequently mentions the relative austerity of their Rule. 11 Although the Poor Clares came to boast a robust book culture, interpretations of the Rule of St. Clare's application in individual communities could express wariness about the value of reading...
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Authoring the “Author of My Being” in Memoirs of Doctor Burney
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 152–169.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Hearts, and from their
appointed Task of understanding and amending them, than the most
garrulous female Chronicler, of the goings-on of yesterday in the Families
of her Neighbours and Towns-folk?10
Coleridge explicitly designates a certain type of biographical “gossip” as
feminine...
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Annotation, Nation, and Canon Formation
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 113–118.
Published: 01 January 2020
... annotations shaped the thirteenth- century chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Strabone proposes the concept of bardic mediation to explain how annotation enabled a reframing: What had been a historical document to a classically trained antiquarian became to the Romantic era a poem that underpinned the bal...
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Cheese, Stolen Paper, and the London Book Trade, 1750-99
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 100–110.
Published: 01 September 2014
... three were branded.
There can be no doubt that Johnson’s Dictionary is a very important
title. Less important, at least to posterity, was the theft from Larkin How,
a robbery reported in the London Chronicle on 13–15 September 1759: “Yes-
terday [was] tried at the Old Bailey . . . Sarah Cater...
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“Living Proof”: Frances Burney’s Court Journals and Letters , Volumes 1 and 2
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 115–120.
Published: 01 January 2014
... private transactions or opinions, nor
to any state affairs of any kind” (1:1 – 2), but, as Peter Sabor’s annotation of this
passage suggests, Burney’s journal chronicling her five years at the court of
King George III did just that, and more. The recently published editions of the
first two...
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Visual Interpretations, Print, and Illustrations of Thomson's The Seasons , 1730 – 1797
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 23–64.
Published: 01 April 2010
... in Diary or
Woodfall’s Register (13 April 1792), the Star (13 April 1792), Diary or Woodfall’s Register
(14 April 1792), the Morning Chronicle (14 April 1792), the World (14 April 1792), the
Morning Chronicle (14 April 1792), the Diary (17 April 1792), the Morning Chronicle
Visual...
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Making a Play for Patronage: Dennis O’Bryen’s A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed (1783)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 183–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
.... Nevertheless, the London
Chronicle was able to report an amicable conclusion to the affair:
Mr. Erskine told Mr O’Bryen, he was ready to receive his fire—Mr.
O’Bryen desired Mr. Erskine to fire—Mr. Erskine fired and missed. Mr.
O’Bryen then fired his pistol in the air, and said, “Mr...
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