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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Kathleen Lawton-Trask A sometime friend, sometime adversary of Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu largely resisted publication, sharing her work privately and denying authorship of some of her poems that made their way into print. Nevertheless, today she is considered a prominent literary...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 119–132.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Ros Ballaster Duke University Press 2010 R
The Economics of Ethical Conversation:
The Commerce of the Letter in Eliza Haywood
and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Ros Ballaster
University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 61–85.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Anna K. Sagal This article argues that Eliza Haywood’s periodical Epistles for the Ladies is an important contribution to the perennially popular eighteenth-century dialogue about female friendships. Contextualizing this work in other seventeenth-and eighteenth-century writings about women...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 63–84.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Lina Jiang This article focuses on Ann Murry's serial essay “The Moral Zoologist, or Natural History of Animals,” which appeared in the Lady's Magazine in sixty‐seven letters between 1800 and 1805. I argue that Murry's “The Moral Zoologist” contested the bounds of women's scientific knowledge...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 28–46.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Melanie Bigold This article reconsiders the importance of antiquarian interests and research methods in the making of George Ballard’s encyclopedic biography of learned women, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain who have been celebrated for their writings or skill in the learned languages...
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in Contesting Women's Learning and Fashion: Ann Murry's Moral Zoological System in the Lady's Magazine
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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 1. The Lady's Magazine 32 (1801): 625.
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in Contesting Women's Learning and Fashion: Ann Murry's Moral Zoological System in the Lady's Magazine
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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 2. The Lady's Magazine 33 (1802): 684.
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in Contesting Women's Learning and Fashion: Ann Murry's Moral Zoological System in the Lady's Magazine
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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 4. A plate of the toucan in Lady's Magazine 35 (1804).
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 1. Concluding stanzas of “The Way to Get Married. Addressed to the Ladies,” signed “E. A. I. [Edward Arthur Illingworth] March 1824.” Photograph by the author.
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![T. Stothard, “[Palemon Dying],” engraved by J. Heath, The <span class="search-highlight">Lady's</span> Poetical ...](https://dup.silverchair-cdn.com/dup/Content_public/Journal/eighteenth-century-life/47/2/10.1215_00982601-10394923/1/s_ecl10394923figure2.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=tAW74qXfMkVakgNTjbOU74-GRDKy9pNVGJNaKtemFOytRJB1wf3hWQDgYs7BOry9z3zgfXIJvrOrJHITE5tYTWdaILd1ubZmOcCmZNKeA~q3p9WMhOsg85kveHmeTbIA-TsZmwFx2FQEMubfq8dcDl48E-0wAmR28zfEmNVY5Yhv7-q4Re0RkeiPt-FefBfSgcsL6WBHghDzLvq6ob7vFccYbEd4dUqOV8Gr39rCs4Y~wi6L2GTJWVVwpvvc4Wf1ZXu8RmD7tZdmZvxx6hIsboyLmH-qVk5eUmMgLyNIkvAruKW3y3MlylOBZIIktY1UA-8qy0WoUdy80YtPZ9Agrw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 2: T. Stothard, “[Palemon Dying],” engraved by J. Heath, The Lady's Poetical Magazine 16 (London: J. Harrison, 1782). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection.
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in Contesting Women's Learning and Fashion: Ann Murry's Moral Zoological System in the Lady's Magazine
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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 3. A plate entitled Paris Dress from “Parisian Fashions” in the Lady's Magazine 34 (1803).
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 158–177.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., Oxfordshire, Caroline Lybbe Powys (1738–1817); the first woman to publish a Grand Tour account, Lady Anna Miller (1741–81) of Batheaston, Somerset; the unmarried daughter of the rector of Thornton in Craven, Yorkshire, Dorothy Richardson (1748–1819); and the Whig political salon hostess, Lady Elizabeth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... of his life, but he was also a translator, a textual scholar, a prodigious letter writer, and in the first major phase of his career, a love poet depicting young women in love, such as Sapho, Eloise, the Unfortunate Lady, and Belinda, often focusing on erotic rapture and death. From about 1728 until his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
... seventy years: five‐and‐a‐half‐year‐old Melesinda Munbee's “Collection of Several Poems” (1749); Eleanor Peart's “Collection of Poems by Several Hands” (1768); Elizabeth Frances Amherst's “The Whims of E. A. afterwards Mrs. Thomas” (1798); and Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury's untitled miscellany (ca. 1815...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 89–104.
Published: 01 April 2017
... voice emerges as the text's most distinct and powerful narrative force. This voice presents itself as corrective and collective, demonstrating the benefits of a community and redefining the authority of the author. In her less well-known periodical, The Lady's Museum (1760-61), Lennox introduces...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2015
... from the more familiar watercolor. At center left, just behind the figures that have often been identified as the Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Duncannon, stands a man who appears to be holding a drawing pad with which to capture the likeness of the viewer who stands before him, or, better yet...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 25–55.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., and as patrons or brokers in the patronage system
on which all political and ecclesiastical appointments depended.3 Literary
and cultural historians, such as Dustin Griffi n and Sarah Prescott, have
shown that ladies were also active participants in the literary patronage
system.4 Other scholars...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 January 2001
... in literary fame and as actively repudiat-
ing the literary marketplace. As already noted, although this image has
often been emphasized as part of Rowe’s authorial persona as a modest
lady, what has been ignored is the way in which Rowe’s provincial context
centrally...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 70–94.
Published: 01 January 2002
... voice and his white skin, not to mention Humphry
Clinker’s milky posteriors— the protagonists betray their superior origins
long before the discovery scene. And thus by the latter half of the century,
men actually sought and valued wives who, like Lady Bertram...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 37–55.
Published: 01 January 2022
... often been interpreted through her comic play, The Witlings (1779). It is generally believed that The Witlings fictionalizes Elizabeth Montagu and her Bluestockings as Lady Smatter and her literary club, who are the frequent targets of Burney's satire and the audience's derision. Many critics...
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