...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...

...Philip Smallwood Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Winn James Anderson . Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts . ( New York : Oxford Univ. , 2014 ). Pp. xxi + 792. 35 b/w ills., 18 color inserts, 28 musical examples. $39.95 Review Essay...

... Kennedy (1790–1816) , ed. Lorna J. Clark ; vol. 4: The Diary of Queen Charlotte, 1789 and 1794 , ed. Kassler ( London : Routledge , 2016 ). Pp. 1,664. $770 . £ 385 . Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 2...

...Susan Kubica Howard Writing in the popular nineteenth‐century genre of queens’ lives, Charlotte Papendiek's memoirs, published under the title Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte , chronicle both the life of the queen as well as that of Papendiek. Papendiek establishes her agency...

...Donelle Ruwe Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (1814) is a historical novel by the Irish author Adelaide O’Keeffe that features religious conversions from paganism to Judaism, and from Judaism to Christianity. O’Keeffe stages these conversions within the context of late Enlightenment debates about...

...Ashley Marshall Hone Joseph . Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne ( Oxford : Oxford Univ. , 2017 ). Pp. vi + 209 . $81 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 1, January 2020 doi...

...Felicity Nussbaum Duke University Press 2008 R “Real, Beautiful Women”: Actresses and The Rival Queens Felicity Nussbaum University of California, Los Angeles “Theatrical revolutions...

...Sandro Jung This essay approaches Edmund Spenser’s Renaissance masterpiece, The Faerie Queene , through a hitherto unknown series of twenty-four vignette illustrations that the eighteenth-century painter and book illustrator, Thomas Stothard, contributed to the nowadays little-known annual...

..., and temperament. A close reading of her accounts of her encounters with the Reverend Charles de Guiffardière, reader to the queen, reveals Burney’s anxious internal negotiations with the requirements of propriety and her understandable fear of rumor and gossip in “a tattling Town like Windsor.” Such negotiations...

... 7 The Rise of the Novel, or Tis Sixty Years Since David H. Richter Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center Leah Orr. Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690 1730 (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia, 2017). Pp. viii + 336. $45 Thomas Keymer, ed. Prose Fiction in English from...

... The Moral Negotiation of Fashion in Regency England Amanda Vickery Queen Mary University of London Religion and the Georgian world of goods are rarely discussed in tandem. There is immense scholarship on medieval Renaissance religious culture, but the modern history of consumerism is remarkably secular...

...- Century Life Volume 44, Number 3, September 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-8718655 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 5 1 Defoe s Robinson Crusoe: Maps, Natural Law, and the Enemy Ala Alryyes Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) Literature accommodates many kinds of knowledge. In a novel...

... Andrew Lincoln Queen Mary University of London This essay considers works published by two women writers as Britain was preparing for hostilities against revolutionary France in 1793. Both writ- ers considered the guilt arising from war. In response to the national Fast Day proclaimed for 19 April, 1793...

... Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 4 3 The Prospectus War of the 1790s: Literary Advertising in an Age of Revolution David Duff Queen Mary University of London The French Revolution debate that dominated the British press for much of the 1790s is often referred to as a pamphlet war, but the phrase...

...Jennifer M. Jones Caroline Weber. Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (New York: Henry Holt, 2006). Pp. 412. 26 ills. $27.50 Duke University Press 2009 Review Essay A Sartorial Road Map to Rebellion...

..., with a particular emphasis on the queen of the species, and the often unstable meaning of her queenliness, fl uctuating as this sometimes did between an imperious regality and a more “everywoman” ordinariness. As feminist scholarship on the eighteenth century has shown, defi nitions and cultural assumptions...

... between the century’s two greatest Spenserians can help to clarify some of the terms in our current debate about canon-formation. The scholarship of John Upton (1707–60) and Thomas Warton (1728– 90) in the 1750s effected a breakthrough in critical understanding of The Faerie Queene. Upton’s...

...Timothy Erwin Marshall Ashley , ed. Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson . ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2015 ). Pp. 269 . 44 ills . $80 Reverand Cedric D. II , ed. Queen Anne and the Arts . ( Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. , 2015...

... Burney’s descrip- tion of the journal she was about to begin for her sister, Susan, in July, 1786, shortly after accepting an appointment as joint keeper of the robes to the queen. Burney goes on to declare that she will “never make the most distant allusion to politics, to the Royal family’s...