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“Bookmaking Out of the Remains of the Dead”: George Ballard’s Memoirs of Several Ladies (1752)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 28–46.
Published: 01 April 2014
... – 1756), the Anglo-Saxon scholar whom Ballard
befriended and who provided the inspiration for his efforts.8 It is a col-
lection about collections, collecting, textuality, scholarship, memorializa-
tion, manuscript circulation, collaboration, and the creation of textual lives.
In Ballard’s letters...
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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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The First Information Age: Women and the Making of the English Literary Canon
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 121–126.
Published: 01 January 2021
...- sive array of evidence that women had an unquestionably vital influence on the wider circulation of manuscript and print texts, and that they published an extraordinary diversity of important and original ideas at the dawn of the first information age. Not only women s networking, which included...
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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
... Peters archive studies manuscript circulation print and periodical culture textual recovery Just over two months after Phillis Wheatley Peters's death on 5 December 1784, her husband, John Peters, advertised in the Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser for the immediate return...
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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
... relevant to the monastic context. Although the practice of circulating work in manuscript might strike contemporaries as anachronistic, it allowed some authors—notably women—to make a space for themselves adjacent to the literary marketplace from which they were often excluded. 19 Work on the literary...
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“The Fragments, Scraps, the Bits and Greasy Relics”: Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellany
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
... in studies of the textual transmission, reception, and critical
conception of Shakespeare.5 Whilst, for example, Arthur F. Marotti and
Laura Estill have surveyed the circulation of Shakespearean fragments in
Renaissance manuscript miscellanies, there has been no sustained study
of the printed...
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Afterword
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 262–267.
Published: 01 January 2024
... resembled “books,” to play a part in its history other than as a preliminary stage of the print process. Speaking only for myself, even though I worked with both circulated sheets and curated manuscript volumes from the late seventeenth century into the first decades of the eighteenth, I was cautious about...
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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
..., although her boast of impartiality is tinged with the irony for which
she was known. Lady Mary was an experienced essayist, having written
anonymously for The Spectator and for her own short-lived periodical, the
Nonsense of Common-Sense. She had circulated her poetry in manuscript
since she...
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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
... stream of printed materials circulating throughout the British and transatlantic worlds in the commodity forms of newspapers, magazines, and print miscellanies. The demotic and popular nature of this source material has led scholars of manuscript studies to dismiss the eighteenth-century manuscript verse...
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Oral Vs. Literate Transmission in Poetry and Song: A Survey of the Irish Evidence
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 105–110.
Published: 01 April 2015
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the manuscript versions of prose sagas and verse romances come first in time
with oral variants appearing subsequently, or did the manuscript texts reflect
material already circulating orally? Henigan envisages an intertwining of the
literate strand, represented by the monastic schools, with elite oral...
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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
... of the memoirs, but also every place where he had lived. The information on the title-page of Cannon's manuscript, because he did not have it printed, was not designed to circulate in broad social networks, like printed works. Instead, the inclusion of a title-page with all its associated information works...
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Owning Ephemerality
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 100–105.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of performance becomes a counterintuitive opportunity for the playwright. Keeping one's dramatic work out of print, and only circulated on the stage, allowed the playwrights to lay sole claim to ideas or creations that existed only in the moment of performance, or to the complete manuscripts that they hid...
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“Why I Write Them, I Can Give No Account”: Aphra Behn and “Love-Letters to a Gentleman” (1696)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 65–82.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Hall, Oxford
England’s first female professional writer, Aphra Behn (1640 – 89), pre sents
problems for those seeking to establish her biography. Despite her contem-
porary success and popularity, there is, in Behn’s case, very little to go on.
Behn’s manuscript hand survives in only a small...
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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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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
... Ezell, Social Authorship and the Advent of Print (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1999); François Moureau, De bonne main: la communication manuscrite au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Universitas, 1993); and Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550 – 1800 , ed...
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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
... also blurs the line between documents and books even prior to their collection for potential publication in Leadbeater's printed volumes. The letters in this collection circulated for community reading, and some of them were compiled into manuscript booklets or printed books before being transferred...
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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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Challenging Eisenstein: Recent Studies in Print Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 83–95.
Published: 01 April 2002
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manuscripts were circulated not only by the nobility and gentry, but among
writers of quite modest backgrounds. Among the most valuable information
contained in Ezell’s book is its identification of a number of poets—Marie
Burghope, John Chatwin, Patrick Cary, Mary...
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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
...) that they had to master. 22 Penmanship was taught in seventeenth-century New England by traveling writing masters. 23 While it remains unclear if the writing masters carried penmanship books with them, we do know that British penmanship books circulated in the colonies from manuscript copies...
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The Reception History of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as a Celebrity Female Traveler
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 58–80.
Published: 01 April 2025
... with Goldsmith's poem “The Traveller” demonstrates how Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters , which was originally circulated in manuscript form in the early 1720s, was adapted to fit the new vogue of sentimental literature, the popular literary trend of the latter half of the eighteenth century. Her travel letters...
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