Birthright: The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped

Birthright: The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped

Author: A. Roger Ekirch

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-01-25

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0393076792

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The astonishing story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Kidnapped. In 1728, in the wake of his father’s death, the twelve-year-old heir to five aristocratic titles and the scion of Ireland’s mighty house of Annesley was kidnapped by his uncle and shipped to America as an indentured servant. Only after twelve more years did “Jemmy” Annesley at last escape, returning to Ireland to bring his blood rival, the Earl of Anglesea, to justice in one of the most captivating trials of the century. Hundreds of years later, historian A. Roger Ekirch delves into the court transcripts and rarely seen legal depositions that chronicle Jemmy’s attempt to reclaim his birthright, in the process vividly evoking the volatile world of Georgian Ireland—complete with its violence, debauchery, ancient rituals, and tenacious loyalties.


The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature

Author: Cheryl L. Nixon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-17

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1317021940

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Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.


An Abstract of the Case of the Honourable James Annesley, Esq; Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of All Disinterested Persons, and of All Lovers of Justice and Truth

An Abstract of the Case of the Honourable James Annesley, Esq; Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of All Disinterested Persons, and of All Lovers of Justice and Truth

Author: JAMES. ANNESLEY

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-22

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781385226476

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Law Library N014964 Dublin: printed in the year, 1754. [8],118p.; 8°


The Militia in Eighteenth-century Ireland

The Militia in Eighteenth-century Ireland

Author: Neal Garnham

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1843837242

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This text shows how the militia played a larger role in the defence of 18th century Ireland than has hitherto been realised, and how it's reliability was therefore a key point for the government.


Theodora, A Novel

Theodora, A Novel

Author: Lucy Cogan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1000455297

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Theodora, A Novel by Dorothea Du Bois, published in 1770, is an entertaining and frequently shocking tale of a young woman’s efforts to regain her position in high society after her aristocratic father’s abandonment of and denial of marriage to her mother. The two-volume work is a thinly-veiled fictionalisation of Du Bois’s eventful personal history and the novel represents just one prong of what was a very public campaign to assert what she believed was her rightful place among the nobility of Ireland and Britain. Central to the narrative of Theodora is the powerlessness of women in the face of a system, moral, social and legal, that was designed to enshrine and protect patriarchal interests. In this manner Theodora exposes the gross injustices of eighteenth century society. This scholarly edition of Du Bois’s novel introduces readers to a unique voice in women’s writing of the eighteenth century that has been undeservedly dismissed by literary history for far too long.


American Claimants

American Claimants

Author: Sarah Meer

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0198812515

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This volume identifies a transatlantic literary form, the American Claimant narrative. The book traces the origins of the American claimant back to lost-heir romance, and then demonstrates its importance and pervasiveness in the nineteenth century.