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Jane Barker, Manuscript Culture, and the Epistemology of the Microscope
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 50–75.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Rachel Mann Through the figures of Jane Barker, a gentlewoman who lived from 1652 to 1732, and whose work was both circulated in manuscripts as well as print, and Robert Hooke, curator to the Royal Society, this essay shows that experimental science and manuscript culture were premised...
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Introduction: The Manuscript Book in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Alexis Chema; Betty A. Schellenberg [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 This special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life on the manuscript book is, first and foremost, a celebration of the sheer vitality, variety, and cultural...
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William Falconer's Manuscript Draft Poetry: An Annotated Transcription
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 216–260.
Published: 01 April 2023
... are not numbered; the log entries occupy the first thirty-three leaves, and are followed by twenty-nine leaves of draft poems, here designated leaves 34v to 62r. These are the only surviving manuscripts of Falconer's poetry. We can assume from the log entries that the date of these drafts is 1760 onward, which...
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Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents: A Case Study
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Joanne E. Myers This article examines the manuscript practices of Sister Cecily Joseph (Elizabeth) Cornwallis, an Englishwoman and Poor Clare sister who served as the scrivener for her Rouen convent from 1688 to 1737, when she created many beautiful and eclectic prayer books for the use of her...
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“Let Genius Still This Glorious Object Own”: Naming, Signing, Authoring, and Owning in the Manuscript Verse Miscellany
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Betty A. Schellenberg This essay covers what it meant to “own” a manuscript verse miscellany in the eighteenth century. Manuscript miscellanies offer palpable, if enigmatic, evidence that the often‐obscure individuals who made such books understood themselves to be, simultaneously, readers...
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“The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... material form in an illustrated manuscript book he produced in the first decades of the eighteenth century. As a work and an object, the Chronicles stages a series of conversations between print and manuscript. In exploring this unique case study, we expose how the mixed medium of the manuscript book could...
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Computational Approaches to Manuscript Books: Quaker Correspondence and the History of Its Reconstruction
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 236–261.
Published: 01 January 2024
... transformation can elucidate the nonlinear relationship between print and manuscript in earlier periods. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2024...
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“A Piece of History the Most Remarkable & Interesting That Ever Happened in Any Age or Country”: “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript of Robert Forbes
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Leith Davis This chapter presents a book‐history analysis of a 2,148‐page manuscript book known as “The Lyon in Mourning.” Compiled after the defeat of the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden (1746), the work consists of pro‐Jacobite materials copied out by Episcopalian minister Robert Forbes...
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“A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 183–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Michelle Levy This essay revisits the history of Phillis Wheatley Peters's “volume of manuscript poems &&.,” a collection of handwritten poems, which her husband, John Peters, advertised for its return in late 1784, just days after her death. Since no second volume of poems was published...
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in Line Making as Life Writing: Graphic Literacy and Design in Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Books
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 2. Index from the print/manuscript commonplace book of R. King in A New Common- Place Book, in which the Plan Recommended and Practiced by John Locke, Esq., is enlarged and improved , 3rd ed. (Cambridge: John Nicolson, 1783), Huntington, HM 79057. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, San
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in Line Making as Life Writing: Graphic Literacy and Design in Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Books
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 3. Excerpt from the print/manuscript commonplace book of R. King in A New Common-Place Book, in which the Plan Recommended and Practiced by John Locke, Esq., is enlarged and improved (Cambridge: John Nicolson, 1783), Huntington, HM 79057. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 4. Excerpt from the print/manuscript commonplace book of R. King in A New Common-Place Book, in which the Plan Recommended and Practiced by John Locke, Esq., is enlarged and improved (Cambridge: John Nicolson, 1783), Huntington, HM 79057. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino
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Valuation of Frances Burney's Manuscripts, © John Avery Jones. Courtesy of ...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 September 2022
Figure 5. Valuation of Frances Burney's Manuscripts, © John Avery Jones. Courtesy of the UK National Archives.
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Valuation of Charles Burney's Manuscripts, © John Avery Jones. Courtesy of ...
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Figure 6. Valuation of Charles Burney's Manuscripts, © John Avery Jones. Courtesy of the UK National Archives.
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Writing Himself into a Profession: Knowledge, Skills, and Community in John Martin's “Several Receipts for the Use of Mankind”
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Bénédicte Miyamoto; Faith D. Acker John Martin wrote “Several Receipts for the Use of Mankind” (1690–96) mainly by copying out printed texts at a time when he was successfully converting from plasterer to the more upwardly mobile profession of painter. In his manuscript, a near‐complete fair copy...
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Before the Reporter's Notebook: The Oblong Book in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 134–158.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Ashley Cataldo Throughout the eighteenth century, the oblong octavo format had a specific variety of uses. Held horizontally, oblong books were almost exclusively used for printed and manuscript music, and printed music books frequently contain manuscript additions by amateur musicians, as well...
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Line Making as Life Writing: Graphic Literacy and Design in Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Books
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Figure 2. Index from the print/manuscript commonplace book of R. King in A New Common- Place Book, in which the Plan Recommended and Practiced by John Locke, Esq., is enlarged and improved , 3rd ed. (Cambridge: John Nicolson, 1783), Huntington, HM 79057. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, San...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: New Insights from the Digital Miscellanies Index
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 January 2017
... poems, focusing on poems that were misattributed to her. Lady Mary stands as an example of an author who was vigorously engaged with defending and promoting her literary reputation, sometimes manipulating the manuscript/print gap for her own ends, but sometimes falling victim to unscrupulous or ignorant...
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Queen Charlotte’s 1789 Account Book
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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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Insects and the American Farmer: Crèvecœur's Response to Buffon's and Raynal's Theories of American Nature
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Crèvecœur's book weighed in to promote the North American colonies. In the collection of manuscript essays Crèvecœur presented to London publisher Davis and Davies in 1781, some described plagues ruining crops, or swarms biting colonists, but these texts were passed over, and not published until the 1920s...
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