...Ann Campbell This essay argues that Frances Burney in Cecilia; or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) critiques political debates and literary conventions focused on clandestine marriage. Through two plots of this novel, one economic and one focused on courtship, Burney interprets clandestine marriage...

... before the Marriage Act of 1753 in England and Wales, especially the notorious clandestine marriage trade of London, I argue that there is a strong suggestion throughout that Sarah may not be simply a discarded mistress, but actually the rake's first wife. By contemplating ways in which the moral lesson...

... Irregular marriages included a variety of forms of clandestine marriage. And as R. B. Outh- waite has explained, clandestine marriage was any marriage that breached canon law to some degree, whether by taking place outside the church, or outside the time or dates prescribed by the church, or, more...

... clandestine marriage to polyamory, to polygamy, to polyandry, scarcely a sexual permutation goes unimagined. Such themes drew charges of pru- rience from Darwin’s censorious contemporaries.2 Recent scholars have treated Darwin’s erotics more admiringly while conceding their masculin- ist cast.3...

... perspective. Certainly, given his father’s opposition to Mary Dunkley as a future wife, it is not sur- prising that Bentham supported these limitations, going so far as to defend clandestine marriage even though he himself never married. In his first ECL26202-22-chiu.q4 5/28...

...- riage rites further the reform of unruly marriage practices at home, such as those celebrated at London’s Fleet and other flourishing urban clandestine marriage markets? I shall argue that the interests and categories within marriage-rites literature helped normalize...

... himself eloped with an heiress, his father had been violently opposed to the passage of the 1753 Clandestine Marriage Act. In 1772 Charles Fox had planned to propose a new Marriage Bill to repeal that act, but was preempted by the king’s Royal Marriage Bill that made all future marriages...

.... Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2012). Pp. xi + 342. 49 color ills. $55 Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-­Century Women Poets (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ., 2013). Pp. xii + 303. 12 ills. $90 King, Kathryn R. A Political Biography...

... this world exists only in the female imagination, for Harley’s previous clandestine marriage makes Emma’s attachment to him impossible. Emma’s sexual offer is the climax of the delusional plot of romantic desire; and this is the moment critics read as testifying to the novel’s endorsement of, rather...

... Mem, ) that the marriage by license in St. George’s Chapel, Mayfair, may have been clandestine to keep their illegitimate child secret, but half of the marriages in London took place in “clandestine” centers in the mid-eighteenth century. See Jacob Field, “An Examination of Fleet Weddings...

... had probably already met by 1743. Throughout the period of courtship and then the brief marriage to George Scott, both Matthew Robinson and Elizabeth Montagu resisted the union. Eventually, Matthew Robinson reluc- tantly provided Scott with a dowry, but after the clandestine dissolution...

... while he writes.7 The letters also purport to be conveying secret information: that there are actually few political secrets within these letters does not detract from the fact that Swift proclaims the clandestine nature of his information partly as a way of demonstrating his affection...

... surely betrays our clandestine feminist agenda. Although separated by 200 years, the objects that embody the “It” factor of celebrity for Wil- liam Shakespeare and Jane Austen tell strikingly par- allel tales about how objects Figure 2. Oil painting of David Garrick Leaning on a for all...

... of James’s followers drifted back to England and Ireland either clandestinely or with government permis- sion. An act passed in 1698 provided penalties for those who had served in 70   Eighteenth-Century Life James II’s army or who were in touch with his court, although the govern- ment reserved...

... both in Sir William Haward’s man- uscript miscellany and, later, in The Works of the late Duke of Buckingham, Bullard argues that the anonymous satires with which Haward happened to gather the poem make Rochester’s poem seem clandestine, fugitive, whereas the Buckingham poems...

... In fact, in the years prior to the publication of Sense and Sensibility, specific events brought this old family connection to the fore. Between 1804 and 1811, the illegitimate child of Sir Francis Dashwood, then known as Mrs. Lee, involved herself after a scandalous elopement and a brief marriage...

... obscurity” clouds her “a…airs” But it is from the halfway point in the novel that she is most insistently framed as an object to be observed, analyzed, and classed, accordingly, from Mortimer warning her that their clandestine meetings must “be food for conjecture, for enquiry, for wonder” to Mr...

... was obliged to give such a hue to the statement as may render it suitable, and even use- ful to the moral tendency of our female biography. 51 For the major pas- sages in Inchbald s life consisted of improprieties: her clandestine flight from home before she was sixteen to come to London, where she was soon...

..., and pricking your gums with the bristles” of an old toothbrush while waiting for “a fresh supply,” Sensitive one-ups him: “Let me finish your picture with a touch of horror that shall petrify the beholder:—The moment in which a misgiving comes over you, that a servant has clandestinely assisted you...