... her into established networks in the profession. It then reveals the ways in which an actress's legal status as feme covert might impact upon her professional agency, particularly in light of her unique position as both trader and object of trade. The essay then goes on to consider how actresses...

... University Press 2023 John Boyle collaboration professional network commercial market instrumental In the front matter of Charlotte Lennox's 1759 translation of The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy from the French, the following paragraph appears on a page by itself under the title...

... in the late seventeenth century and flourished during the eighteenth century. This community included aristocrats, gentry, merchants, and professionals, who often retained close connections with Ireland, and who belonged to wider Irish Catholic networks in continental Europe and in some European colonies...

... networks in—uenced the remarkable spate of cultural activity carried out by its polymath members. No publication has, in other words, considered how the Burney family might help us to think di†erently about overlaps and intersections between kinship, professionalism, and sociability...

... to Johnson’s in Ireland, but may have relied on the same networks of professional training. Johnson was from Derry, but began his medical studies with a surgeon-apothecary in Portglenone, Antrim, and then was apprenticed to a Mr. Bankhead of Belfast. William Babington was from Portglenone, and Charles...

... figure” and imagined writers, particularly Romantic poets, composing their works and revising them in isolation, Havens addresses not only edits to unpublished novel manuscripts, but also post-publication revisions to depict authorship as collective and dependent upon a writer's network—from family...

... that is on its surface. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 London Irish Irish jokes Irish diaspora Stage Irishman ethnic stereotypes • The Irish Joke, Migrant Networks, and the London Irish in the 1680s...

...Peter Sabor This essay offers a revisionist reading of Charles Burney Sr.’s extraordinary talent for networking. It shows that Dr. Burney initiated and burnished a friendship with Dr. Johnson, who would play a crucial role in facilitating Burney’s transition from lowly musician to respected man...

... 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 writing within tight social circles, but also their reading, copying, collecting, conversing, writ...

... still lead to participation in the dominant social structures. This was especially the case for the academies of Hackney and Newington Green, for they promised access to the commercial, political, and professional networks of nearby London. They were known...

... professional writers, a new function and sta- tus. This process, in turn, formed part of a network of developments in eigh- teenth-century British culture that included the creation of disciplinarity, the rise of nationalism, and the reposting of women to new social...

....”36 Shelburne’s wariness about using Lon- don Irish networks was not exceptional among Anglo-Irish noblemen, who employed London professionals and tradesmen irrespective of their vari- ous national origins; there was no need to seek out Irishmen. Interestingly, Shelburne turned wherever he could...

... on the contributions professional artists, primarily male, made to the art market and exhibitions of their time. Delany is worth revisiting, Weisberg- ­Roberts argues, within the context of new developments that seek to redress such imbalances by studying in greater detail the figure of the amateur in artis- tic...

... obstacles to satisfactory matches. As compensation increased in the later eighteenth century, however, marriage became more common. A wife came to be regarded as a professional asset, as the spouses of diplomats — ​almost invariably from diplomatic or court- ier families themselves — ​became crucial...

... Bennet in the central text as a sultry, full-­lipped, tanned hottie, whose abundant dark hair is professionally highlighted and windblown. A similar disjunction oper- ates in Marvel’s Northanger Abbey, and arguably, in reverse. There, wistful romantic covers by Julian Totino Tedesco cloak Lee’s...

... of cultures within the Ottoman Empire, Hamadeh questions how exceptional Western models were in the eighteenth century. She also situates the Ottoman Empire within a broader network of diplomatic exchange with Safavid Persia and Mughal India to provide a more complete picture of how new styles, tastes...

... Raising the Wind: Society Hostesses and Social Networks David Hill Radcliffe Virginia Tech Susanne Schmid. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Pp. ix...

... derives principally from the discourse of Linnaean taxonomy, with which Burney was familiar primarily through the personal tutelage of the botanist Daniel Solander (a social acquaintance of her father Charles, and a professional contact of her brother James). Ultimately, taxonomic discourse supplied...

... network,” and how this network extended throughout the wider Stockholm society. An excellent paper from Rebecca Bullard emerged from her work in The Politics of Disclosure, 1674 – 1725: Secret History Narratives (London: Pick- ering and Chatto, 2009), and engaged with the use of letters...

...), a period that she extends back to the mid- eighteenth century and tracks forward to the late Regency era of the 1830s. Bailes s monograph explores women writers con- tributions to the professionalization of the genre of natural history. She dem- onstrates how, during this period, a cadre of figures...