... research shows that controversial pamphlets contemporaneous with Richardson's novel discussed the refusal of Quakers to pay tithes by using the same phrase, an intriguing circumstance as Pamela attends a masquerade dressed as a Quaker. Professor Hume's paper details how little we know about many aspects...

...Patricia C. Brückmann The College of William & Mary 2001 Clothes of Pamela’s Own: Shopping at B- Hall In the Apprentice’s Vade Mecum (1734), Samuel Richardson makes clear his view of dress, class...

... view of more mainstream congregants of the Church of England. Dress was an issue for Anglican women for a variety of reasons. There was no coherent Anglican doctrine on worldly goods. Tories, Latitudi- narians, and Evangelicals all jostled for visibility within the Church of England. Bishops condemned...

... Patricia Crown University of Missouri–Columbia In the 1770s, John Collet (1725–1780),1 often called “the second Hogarth,” produced a number of mildly humorous paintings and prints of fashion- ably dressed women, but of indeterminate class...

... as a Native of Otaehitie, so he cooked up a dress out of Jemm’s Otaehietie Merchandize—I . . . saw his Dress, which was a very good one, he went privately to Sir Joshua’s & took a Scetch of Omiah’s dress,— which he copied in his own pretty exactly—My Mothers Otaehitie Cloth Domino...

..., moving from households to brothels and back again. Motivated by a desire to aff ord economic protection to the wool trade, those who tried to reform the dress of servants were attempting to control three things: the sexuality, consumption, and appearance of work- ing women. The fervent rhetoric...

... and fetes. At Louis XVI’s coronation in June 1775, the nineteen- ­year-­old queen appeared at Reims cathedral in a dress so ornate and laden with sapphires and gemstones her dressmaker urged that it be sent to Reims on a stretcher. But, Weber explains, it was the queen’s hairstyle, an elaborate pouf...

... or the time that might be saved by having the hair dressed off the head, for example.13 A reluctant Samuel Pepys observes that he has “no stomach” for wearing a wig, “but that the pains of keeping my hair clean is so great.”14 Unlike the human head, the wig could be taken off and sent to the wigmaker...

... were markedly differentiated, in physique as well as in dress, by allowing them to develop naturally, whereas the bodies and activities of polite women were engineered to inhibit such naturalness. In Eighteenth-Century Life...

... relations between people, human beings themselves can come to be redefined as objects.”5 Brown’s analysis productively exposes the ambiguous distinctions between art and nature upon which eighteenth-century aes- thetics depend; but the positioning of women’s “dress...

...Figure 3. A plate entitled Paris Dress from “Parisian Fashions” in the Lady's Magazine 34 (1803). ...

... to consumer goods, such as the dressed fashion print and mannequins. Throughout the study, but especially in the discussion of print titles, Radisich provides insightful discussions of various patrons, and in the chapter Negligent Beauty, three intriguing readings, inflected by class, confession...

... 2 0 2 1 patriotic inspiration to a well-known figure from popular balladry: the cross-dressing, plebeian heroine who goes to war. Two fictionalized memoirs of female soldiers — Davies’ Life and Adven- tures and the anonymous The Female...

... amorous couple beneath her. Does she signal that this is a propitious moment for the young man dressed in theatrical costume, at whom she gazes, to place his hand on the breast of his pretty companion? Holmes does not speculate about this, nor does she analyze the various stages of courtship...

..., dressed in filthy clothes but evidently glad to be “taken for a gentleman in disguise,” actually fails to convince a prostitute that he is a highwayman (94). (Abundant evidence elsewhere in the book shows that highwaymen dressed elegantly and behaved courteously on and off the job.) Mackie...

..., that bond sometimes appears strained. At the queen's request, Papendiek visited her in her dressing room upon her marriage, and later, to show off her children as they grew. Queen Charlotte may have requested Papendiek's presence for a number of reasons. As she had been responsible for bringing Papendiek's...

... of directors appointed by Parliament (Holzman, 59). Its graphic precursors made it clear that this Colossus figure expressed insolent pride and politi- cal presumption. In addition, the subject’s designation of “DUN-SHAW,” combined with Gillray’s emphasis on the Indian turban and Scottish dress, makes...

... what in Scotland would be thought down- right madness.” Masquerade dress and topsy-turvy social norms he saw as “turning all into ridiculous”; “St Marks’ Place is like a throng of fools,” he remarked: Water, Windows, and Women 5 Everybody is in mask...