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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... with modes of understanding that were mediated by printed images. In fact, the unique interplay of texts and image that marks so much of the material provided multifarious access routes to cultural practices, com- munities, spaces, and interpretations.4 For example, theater tickets featur- ing engraved...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 83–86.
Published: 01 September 2015
...,”
an honorific that he insisted upon). The theatergoing audience in London—
and that may have meant almost all the aristocracy, gentry and tradespeople,
and their servants, in the capital with a bit of spare cash for a ticket—would
have known exactly whom the Universal Spectator was referring to. In 1734...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 55–84.
Published: 01 September 2013
... fund, this passage finds that both actors
and managers are complicit in multiple levels of financial and ethical
abuse. Foote first equates the fund with a legalized, quasi-governmental
entitlement, and then categorizes box office ticket sales not as economic
exchanges, but rather as acts...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 87–91.
Published: 01 September 2012
... the psychology of gambling, Molesworth finds that narrative, by
its very nature, resembles and feeds the narcissistic fantasies at work in both
paranoia and Freudian family romance. Just as those who, knowing the odds
are against them, still buy lottery tickets, justifying their folly by imagining...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of the actual lord
chancellor, invisible to him but visible to the audience of counsels. So placed
it becomes a satire of the legal profession, indeed, of the commissioners of
the painting. (The subscription ticket, a Rembrandt parody in which Felix’s
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discomfort becomes...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 56–72.
Published: 01 April 2018
... private museum, which boasted in the
s “the most
capital part of the curiosities brought over by the Resolution and Discov-
ery,” and to which Frances and other relatives seem to have acquired season
tickets.20
As the wealthy patrons of his father and sister, Hester and Henry
Thrale also...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 January 2014
... famous 1784
portrait in the guise of the Tragic Muse hung in a place of honor beside
Reynolds’s massive depiction of George III. Austen’s visit was under some-
what less glamorous circumstances that more closely replicated the expe-
rience of most visitors, who purchased tickets and flocked...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 74–97.
Published: 01 April 2006
...
balloon caught fi re during a combined balloon launch and fi rework show.
This disaster resulted in a ban on aeronautic fi reworks.48
Other forms of entertainment were also linked to fi reworks. In 1788 the
Ruggieris sold tickets to a series of experiments on incombustible clothes
invented...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
... eager to pur-
chase prints and books. A “Shakespeare Lottery” ticket is a rare survivor
from the gallery’s dissolution in 1805.28
As modern curators, we are lucky to live in a digital age that allows us
to create virtual versions of the performative past alongside its extant rem-
nants...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 82–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
... if the request is sometimes inconvenient (7, 12, 53). The queen makes it up to her lady helper (who also provided yards of garlands to decorate the newly renovated house) by offering tickets for next- day viewings and gifts of gowns and silks on various occasions (11, 135, 144), a polite trade- off...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 January 2022
... for tickets in advance, were admitted in groups of no more than four, and were “desired not to bring children.” The owners of Stowe or Stourhead or the like could have allowed for open access and free wandering amidst their vast estate, but they instead designed more of a delimited, controlled, rule-bound...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 89–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
...,
particularly previously unheard stories about famous personages, was as good
as a meal ticket. Anecdotes in their unpublished state conveyed status, since
the storyteller was a either a witness or had access to someone in the notable’s
circle. Unpublished anecdotes were closely bound to social networks...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 168–187.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of his motive was money: balloon-
ing was expensive, and although ticket sales, subscriptions, and exhibition
Aerial Letters and Eighteenth-Century Ballooning 1 7 5
fees contributed, most aeronauts struggled to cover costs. Lunardi’s ascent
was conducted against a background...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 49–66.
Published: 01 April 2003
... Life
Expression in Edinburgh, its illustrations of madness are based on a visit to
the London Bethlem, which until 1770 was open to any member of the
public for a fee; and after that date admission was by a ticket issued by the
governor— as later in Glasgow or Dundee— and accompanied tours were...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 34–50.
Published: 01 September 2021
...” that was featured on the subscription tickets for Paul and Thomas Sandby's Six London Views (1766–68)—offered “paper landscapes” and “paper monuments” as models that, their proposers knew, were unlikely ever to become buildings (366, 392). Though they might be read as “extravagant and visionary,” as Gwynn himself...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 94–111.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the Concerts of Antient Music to which the king
had given Burney a ticket. Not only was George’s look “so animated—so
expressive—of even fervent regard,” but it was also followed by an “appli-
cation,” from Charlotte for George, “for leave to renew the acquaintance”
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2008
... in a text, but
it is also similar to being trapped on a freeway miles from the nearest exit,
or trapped on the phone listening to endless options when trying to buy
tickets or pay bills. Johnson understands that as the modes of delivery of
fiction become more powerful, people may be even more...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 138–158.
Published: 01 April 2008
... Abington are among those who
invent a new kind of labor and identity for women. They often served as
their own agents, both formally and informally, in managing their condi-
tions of employment, salaries and benefits, sales of tickets, assignment of
roles, and costuming. In the first century...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 24–45.
Published: 01 January 2002
...
Postillions that drove me, talk of their Cavalry . . . the turnpikes seem’d
converted into Redoubts, and the Dogs demand the Counter Sign from my
Servants instead of their Tickets— then when I got to Maidstone I found
the very Waiters had a Smattering of Tactics, for enquiring...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 23–44.
Published: 01 April 2002
...
at a coronation the organist for the Chapel Royal was allowed to sell tick-
ets for places in a specially constructed organ loft, a perquisite Purcell had
enjoyed under the Stuarts. At William III’s coronation, Purcell was ordered
to redistribute the money from ticket sales...
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