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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... likenesses of actors or theater settings evoking the plays and spaces ticket purchasers would encounter served as entry points to a per- formative realm stimulating the imagination, much in the same way that funeral invitations often boasted complex images inscribed with memento Literar y Ephemera 3 mori...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 65–104.
Published: 01 September 2009
... noteworthy
surveys of English death, such as the work of Ralph Houlbrooke, Ruth
Richardson, Esther Schor, Clare Gittings, Peter C. Jupp, and Julian Litten,
along with historian Paul S. Fritz’s work on the eighteenth-century funeral
and undertaking trade, but a dedicated volume of the history of death...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 136–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in state. In a recent study, Sarah Tarlow notes that in the case of early modern royal funerals the effigy, rather than the natural body, was normally the center of funerary attention: it was the royal effigy, not the biological body, which lay in state and was given a full state funeral. She argues...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 31–52.
Published: 01 September 2003
... on the “Siege of Vienna Raised by John Sobieski,”
from Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty (1816).17 “The
Cross shall spread, the Crescent hath waxed dim,” says Wordsworth, whose
last line turns on “veni, deus vicit” (1.12). John had an elaborate funeral in
Rome in 1696,18 designed, as were...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 32–47.
Published: 01 April 2006
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few relatives attended the unpublicized 5:00 a.m. funeral service for “the
unfortunate victim of a most natural sensibility.”
Hardy was wrong about her given names, and he mistakenly identi-
fi ed the commissioner who completed the formalities as Romain Armand
Legretz (who had...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2023
..., in funereal monuments and civic statuary, in political caricature and engraved reproductions. Such a push would also perforce link together all of the various sites of spectatorship: not just the Great Room, but the churchyard and the civic square, the country house and the urban gallery, the sculpture garden...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 140–150.
Published: 01 April 2013
... acquire a collective and political dimension. He wants to boast that
Greek happiness, unlike our more paltry version, “took concrete political form
in an institution” (452), but the institution that he submits for our consider-
ation, the funeral oration, is agonizingly slight and not in any...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2012
... that commenced in 1766 when
Chatham’s maneuvering blunted the effect of Portland’s resignation as Lord
Chamberlain. His hatred increased to the degree that, after Chatham’s
death on 11 May 1778, Portland “could not bear the thought of attending the
public funeral in his honour.” 34 Although Portland...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 28–46.
Published: 01 April 2014
... 1600 to 1740, the work gives a prominent place
to female aristocrats and gentlewomen (they make up 78 of the 230 entries),
amongst whom are a number of literary and learned women. The tone of
the compilation is strongly influenced by its reliance on funeral sermons,
and Wilford concedes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 66–102.
Published: 01 January 2015
... fifty or so individuals, many of whom received legacies.
The domiciles of beneficiaries—including Antwerp, Bayonne, Bordeaux,
Madrid, Nantes, and Paris—suggest the geographical scope of his business
interests. Named friends were asked to be pallbearers, or simply to attend
his funeral...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 115–119.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the groundwork for their posthumous fame. This proved a greater challenge for Siddons, who encountered specific barriers as a woman. She received no state funeral, as Reynolds and Garrick had, McPherson tells us (175). And she was not hon- ored when she left the stage (1812) in the way that Garrick had been...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 110–115.
Published: 01 January 2025
... or labor, as bedstead provider, midwife fetcher, family prayer leader, and, in tragic circumstances, overseer of funeral arrangements. The reader cannot help but smile at Fox's recounting an instance where one husband “complained of completing his ‘Wife's fiddle faddle Errands’ ” following her delivery...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 38–55.
Published: 01 April 2018
... French horns being played during
a funeral procession, he observed: “This is the rst time that I have ever
been a¦ected by musical sounds” (Boswell’s Life,
These and other such remarks suggest that Johnson would have taken
little interest in Burney’s activities as an organist, composer...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 261–272.
Published: 01 April 2023
...]. The Son of Commerce, an Original Poem, in Thirty-four Cantos, Written by a Sailor. To Which is Added His Grand Ode on the Death and Funeral of the Late Lord Nelson. London: Printed and Sold by Moore & Son. Craw, William. Naval Poetical Journal in Twelve Letters. Kilmarnock: Printed by H...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 55–62.
Published: 01 September 2010
... The Epic of America brings to light Graydon Regenos’s 1948 English
translation of the Rusticatio Mexicana and translates for the first time a funeral
declamation, Marian ode, and sonnet by Rafael Landívar. One can appreciate
the value Laird places on examining “direct products of colonial situation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 47–62.
Published: 01 April 2001
... commingled in the ultimate irony of life that
is death. A “clever sort of man,” this Dyer, who dies having finally experi-
enced, or learned, what pain is. A brief “epilogue” recounts the funeral
(pp. 335–37). The Smollettian “Tabitha” is present, and Sterne’s master...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 101–108.
Published: 01 September 2015
... reaches his conclusions, but clearly, this has to be a “life
and times” biography, because the context has often to be used to illuminate
what must have been going on in the mind of the core personality.
The book is organized in three parts, starting, oddly enough, with Ilay’s
funeral, which...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2008
...” has been
triggered by Wordsworth’s reading of the Prelude; its personifications echo
the despair, indignation, neglect, scorn, and want that terrorize Chatter-
ton. What Wordsworth managed to coax into fruition — hopes and fears,
youth into manhood — have turned into a funeral wreath...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 10–29.
Published: 01 September 2022
... 4833.0.3½ 4833.0.3½ Total of Property 13330.8.3 PAYMENTS Probate or Administration 243.5.6 returned duty £40 13 203.5.6 Funeral Expenses 14 113.12.7 Expenses attending Executorship or Administration 111.11.4½ Debts on simple Contract, Rent and Taxes, Wages, etc due...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 67–95.
Published: 01 April 2003
... neither wound.
Hearts so sincere th’Almighty saw well pleas’d,
Sent his own lightning, and the Victims seiz’d.
(462–63)
This is an elegant compliment comparing the awkward demise of this
young pair with the funeral rites of eastern lovers placed together on the
same pyre to prevent either...
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