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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 12–13.
Published: 01 April 2018
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 56–72.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of Burney’s family, as inhabitants of a late eighteenth-century London saturated by the exotic, participated in all these activities. They had particular interest in, as well as privileged access to, Oceanic material, through Frances’s brother James, a naval officer who traveled on two expeditions with James...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 15–37.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Amy Louise Erickson Esther Sleepe Burney, the wife of Charles and mother of Frances, features almost not at all in the literature on the Burney family. This paper introduces her, her sisters and her mother, as part of a London fan-making enterprise that was highly lucrative and female-dominated...
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in Home Is Where the Heart Is: The Rise of Emotional Spaces in the German Late Enlightenment
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. D. N. Chodowiecki, A Family Reading the Bible (1780), frontispiece in Heinrich Matthias August Cramer, Unterhaltungen zur Beförderung der häuslichen Glückseligkeit [Pastimes for the Advancement of Domestic Bliss] (Belin: Christian Friedrich Himburg, 1781).
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in Before the Reporter's Notebook: The Oblong Book in the Long Eighteenth Century
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 5. Mather Family Papers (1613 – 1819). Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.
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in Computational Approaches to Manuscript Books: Quaker Correspondence and the History of Its Reconstruction
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 3. Network map showing the correspondence network sized by degree and colored by membership in the Shackleton family, where green indicates a member of the family and pink indicates a correspondent outside the family.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 94–111.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Burney at Twickenham, often, in fact, possibly even permanently as a daughter-in-law. Invitations to visit Cambridge house and the family estate at Twickenham Meadows, near Richmond Bridge, were frequent during the years between the first meeting of Richard Owen and his son George Owen Cambridge...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 September 2022
... memoirs. She explores the bond between her family and the royal family: her father was one of three servants Queen Charlotte brought with her from her home when she came to England in 1761, her husband was page to the princess royal, and she herself was playmate to princes as a child and servant...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Jane Lim If John Locke established the self‐enclosed, paternal household as the basis of a new liberal state that fosters self‐governing individuals, this Enlightenment model of family unit is disrupted in gothic fiction that posits claustrophobic homes as the primary locus of terror. Yet...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 155–182.
Published: 01 January 2015
... a family of Anglo-Norman pedigree repositioning himself in London society to take maximum advantage of an extraordinary piece of good fortune. He was so successful in confirming his own family’s preeminence, that the Fitzmaurice-Pettys procured a British peerage in one generation, and in the next, attained...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 152–169.
Published: 01 April 2018
... literary genius. Most significantly, Burney exerts final creative authority over her father, reimagining inheritance as evolution. Burney simultaneously invokes and obscures her family history in a what I argue is a relational biography: one in which the narrative of her father’s life is indistinguishable...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 86–100.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Michael Kassler Queen Charlotte’s account book for part of 1789 is transcribed and annotated for the first time from her manuscript in the Royal Archives. It records payments made during the royal family’s seaside vacation in Wey-mouth and payments made after their return to Windsor. Almost all...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
... , the murder of a blood relation, literally blood of the same blood; oikeios polemos , war within the household or among kinsmen. The common thread is the notion of murderous familial breach as a way of catching the paradox and horror of civil conflict while also indicating possible grounds of future...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 112–130.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., especially in relation to the family, which will be the focus of this critique. Burney wrote five works of fiction between 1796 and 1839, a literary career that spanned almost five decades. Grounded in the domestic novel of manners with strong shades of satire, her fiction also incorporates elements...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 170–186.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Wilberforce, whose son she taught Latin. Besides Marianne’s increasingly gloomy evangelical introspection, the letters are also of interest in tracing the movements of the Burney family after 1807, since Marianne kept up her friend with the whereabouts of her former friends, and even tried to bring about...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 1–36.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Janine Barchas Modern readers of Jane Austen have been reluctant to acknowledge that Sense and Sensibility (1811) rewards, and perhaps even demands, detailed knowledge of one of England's most notorious families in Austen's time, namely the Dashwoods of West Wycombe Park. The best-known member...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 64–99.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... King, with strong familial and political ties to Edmund Burke, would become one of Cook’s most trusted aides, commander of HMS Discovery on the voyage home, and author of volume three of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784), the official history of the voyage, a publication that has put him...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 131–154.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., this article shows how Irish investors, both those living in London, and those more normally residing in Ireland, interacted with the London markets. The importance of personal and familial links is emphasized, while the experience of Irish investors is also situated within the broader context...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... fidelity and credibility. Our case study also pushes us to reconsider some of the clustered assumptions around the nature of the manuscript book in this period: this is the work of a male, non‐elite writer, an amateur production. It is not a family or coterie production, and rather than offering...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., and 130 — reveals that the baronet’s work as a justice of the peace stimulates Mr. Spectator’s moral development. Sir Roger’s intimate relationships with his inferiors and his quasi-familial approach to problem-solving challenge Mr. Spectator’s worldview, allowing Addison and Steele to express their ideas...
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