... servant as a trope for the social and sexual desires of working women who defied the decorum of consumption. In pamphlets and tracts in support of the wool trade, authors such as Dan- iel Defoe and Richard Steele accused female domestic servants, who were subject to fewer sartorial constraints than...

... the East India Company and the Royal African Company of profiting from the depraved appetites of a privileged elite at the expense of wholesome domestic manufactures like wool and beer.15 Here Petyt reflected the Puritan background of much Whig ideol- ogy during this era, along with the Whigs...

...-­half of the collection’s four- teen essays, three of which he translated. Cronk frames the volume’s central theme and focuses on Voltaire’s constantly evolving image from the eighteenth century onward — as enemy of the Church answerable for the Terreur, died-­in- ­the-­wool monarchist, pioneer...

... (London: Macmillan; N.Y.: St. Martin’s, 1999). Pp. vii + 151. $39.95. ISBN 0-312-22430- 3 Smail, John. Merchants, Markets and Manufacture: The English Wool Textile Industry in the Eighteenth Century (London: Macmillan; N.Y.: St. Martin’s, 1999). Pp. x + 198. $65. ISBN 0-312-22162-2 Smart...

... or no fire. She will always be a weakly body; but, thank God, her soul prospers and is in health” (3:415). The children, naturally, work too. Even the smallest can pick “bits of woolout of the bramblesthey carry this wool home, and when they have got a pretty parcel...

... covers the local wool and worsted trade, in which Beatson participated as a spinner, and connects local economic conditions to notions of romance and passion. This is highly speculative, but Steedman makes a convincing point that love and attraction are locally and socially specific. In another...

.... So much, All Arts are by the Men engross’d, And Our few Talents unimprov’d or cross’d; Even I, who on this Subject wou’d compose, Which the fam’d Urbin for his Pencil chose, (And here, in tinctur’d Wool we now behold Correctly follow’d in each Shade, and Fold) Shou’d...

... wool in a cauldron (figure 7). The center of the plate accommodates a boy, probably of higher social status, who appears to hold a hornbook. Not only does he observe the other boy cleaning the wool, but the hornbook clearly associates him with an ideol- ogy of literacy that is indirectly...

... in the extravagance of macaroni heads and women’s hairstyles in the 1770s. Natural hair, supple- mented by purchased tresses, was stiff ened with powder and pomade and brushed over wool, hemp, or wire pads (fi gure 3). Hair could attain heights up to two feet, often embellished with ribbons, living fl owers...

... the Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2008  doi 10.1215/00982601-2008-008 Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 81 82 Eighteenth-Century Life room where [they] sat, a girl was spinning wool with a great wheel, sing- ing an Erse...

... only outside the country. Thus it is too with Musicians, and with all who profess one of the branches of Science, or Liberal Arts, or a Trade. This Fanaticism extends to all commodities: foreign wool and silk are held to be excellent. The arts...

... in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, she visited the home of her tour guide. She was fascinated by “one of the woman's sons, a fine fair fresh Boy about thirteen tho rather little of his age, with a very thick head of hair exactly resembling wool” and took some of it home. 42 She also inquired how its color had changed...

... invisibility in other cultures, is exploited likewise by Sir Walter Scott in chap. 26 of Rob Roy,when he pictures the Londoner Mr. Owen at the Glaswegian Nicol Jarvie’s table, “eating, with rueful complaisance, mouthful after mouthful of singed wool” (ed. Ian Duncan...

... manufacturing techniques: 207 Some English Wool, vex’d in a Belgian Loom, And into Cloth of spungy softness made: Did into France or colder Denmark doom, To ruine with worse ware our staple Trade. (ll. 825 – 28) Ruine has been folded into the vocabulary of economic...

... in politics.6 The State of Swift Studies 2010    8 9 Criticism The Cambridge edition and the superb bibliographical work by May, Wool- ley, and others, represent a huge step forward in the realm of textual studies. What of criticism on Swift’s writings? My categories...

... Undertaker 1 Wool Draper 2 Total 59 Figure 2. Antients’ members, 1751–55: middling- and lower-middling occupations. 116   Eighteenth-Century Life 2). Just under 6 percent...

... between a Farmer and a Justice of the Peace (1784), and A Letter to Arthur Young, Esq., on the Bill Depending in Parliament to Prevent the Exportation of Wool (1788) continue Day’s ongoing ha- rangue against corruption and questionable sensibilities in the British govern- ment and for a return...

... Respecting the Treatment of Animals (London, 1786), 179, and James Thomson, The Seasons [1744], ed. James Sambrook (Oxford: Clarendon, 1981), Spring, ll. 359 – ​61. By claiming that a cow “gives” its milk or a sheep “lends” its wool coat to humans, Thomson, like Cowper after him, suggests...

.... But later examples of discriminatory laws, stat- utes over the wool trade in 1697 and the Declaratory Act in 1720, were not resisted by any effective collective of the Irish in London. Instead, there are signs of hastily arranged gatherings, in part social, but with an aim of promoting Irish...

... this masquerade of professionalism by portray- ing Sir Nicholas Gimcrack, the titular collector, boasting improbably of his transfusion of the blood of a sheep into a man (the man grew wool), in imitation of the Royal Society’s experiments in transfusing one dog’s blood into another.26 However, Sloane...