Search Results for correspondence

...Adrian C. Lashmore-Davies Duke University Press 2008 R The Correspondence of Henry St. John and Sir William Trumbull, 1698 – 1710 Edited by Adrian C. Lashmore...

...Peter Sabor Duke University Press 2010 R “The Job I Have Perhaps Rashly Undertaken”: Publishing the Complete Correspondence of Samuel Richardson Peter Sabor McGill University...

...Louise Curran Duke University Press 2010 R “Into Whosoever Hands Our Letters Might Fall”: Samuel Richardson’s Correspondence and “the Public Eye” Louise Curran University College...

...Abigail Williams Duke University Press 2010 R “I Hope to Write as Bad as Ever”: Swift’s Journal to Stella and the Intimacy of Correspondence Abigail Williams St Peter’s College...

... the introductory letter from an American Jew, Rachel Mordecai Lazarus; their twenty-three year correspondence, although postdating the novel’s publication, nevertheless helps to explain the limitations of Harrington and points toward some of the reasons why Edgeworth never moved beyond a text-based understanding...

... of copies of her father Richard Shackleton's correspondence that Leadbeater transcribed. These letters’ sequential penciled page numbers and pinholes indicate that they were once assembled into a manuscript book—likely a fair copy for printing—but dealers or librarians later separated the pages...

...Mascha Hansen The correspondence between Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi and a less well-known member of the Burney clan, Frances Burney’s niece Marianne Francis, is remarkable because it reveals how an ambitious young woman struggled to overcome the prejudices against learning in women at the beginning...

... at the expense of textual self-memorializing. This essay examines how their nuanced but fundamental disagreements about the purpose of writing, the value of authorial “remains,” and the nature of possible futures constitute the subject of a dialogue that takes place not only in their “private” correspondence...

.... This essay analyzes the Telegraph ’s connections with the London Corresponding Society, and explores the limitations of utopian models of telegraphic communication through the case of reformers exiled to Australia. Despite the practical limitations of telegraphic transmission, the Telegraph demonstrates...

... differently. This essay draws on the predominantly unpublished journals and correspondence of English collector Elizabeth Seymour Percy, first Duchess of Northumberland (1716–76), to reveal the very different ways in which she described prints in each setting. For her, albums or portfolios of prints were...

... of a concordance to the novel published in 1988, it could explore Cleland’s remarkably inventive use of metaphors and similes. It could also draw on his collected correspondence, of which a new edition is forthcoming. In addition, such an edition would give full attention to the novel’s murky and protracted...

... correspondence: “Mr Bull is honouring me, at least my Anecdotes of Painting, exceedingly. He has let every page into a pompous sheet, and is adding every print of portrait, building, etc., that I mention and that he can get, and specimens of all our engravers. It will make eight magnificent folios, and be a most...

... Playfair, the London Corresponding Society, and other individuals and organizations. This article shows how prospectus writers exploited the distinctive resources of the genre, adapting its promissory rhetoric and hyperbolic language for political effect. It also investigates how prospectuses interacted...

...Neil Guthrie Abstract The precise nature of Horace Walpole's sexuality remains elusive, in spite of the extent of his surviving correspondence — which is vast but with notable and possibly strategic gaps. Walpole's reactions to two queer men he encountered in Italy, Cardinal Prince Henry Benedict...

... spanned both sides of the Irish Sea. Its particular focus is on the experience of Irish investors in the South Sea Company, before, during, and after the famous stock-market bubble of 1720. Drawing on a variety of source materials, including private correspondence, exchange-rate data, and banking ledgers...

...  doi 10.1215/00982601-2010-033 Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 149 150 Eighteenth-Century Life Cowper. What might Cowper’s habits, representations, and experiences of letter writing suggest about the progress of a correspondence across time...

... Montagu’s vol- untary exile in France and Italy from 1739 to early in 1772 led her to create in her letters a “home in exile.” Exploring the epistolary form and what it could achieve, Garner demonstrated Montagu’s recurring dependence on and independence from her correspondents, which created...