A Letter from Percival Stockdale to Granville Sharp Esq. Suggested to the Authour [sic], by the Present Insurrection of the Negroes, in the Island of St. Domingo
A Letter from Percival Stockdale to Granville Sharp Esq. Suggested to the Authour [sic], by the Present Insurrection of the Negroes, in the Island of St. Domingo

Author: Percival Stockdale

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781379341291

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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. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ 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: ++++ British Library T109753 Page 22 signed and dated: Nov.6th, 1791. With a half-title. Durham: printed by L. Pennington. Sold in London, by W. Clarke; Shepperson and Reynolds; T. and J. Egerton; T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and T. Vernor, [1791?] xi, [1],28p.; 8°

Fame and Failure 1720–1800
Fame and Failure 1720–1800

Author: Adam Rounce

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-10-03

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1107435765

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Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame through writers who failed to achieve the literary success they so desired. Recounting the experiences of less canonical writers, including Richard Savage, Anna Seward and Percival Stockdale, Rounce discusses the inefficacy of apparent literary success, the forms of vanity and folly often found in failed authorship, and the changing perception of literary reputation from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the emergence of Romanticism. The book opens up new ways of thinking about the nature of literary success and failure, given the post-Romantic idea of the doomed creative genius, and provides an alternative narrative to critical accounts of the famous and successful.

The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)
The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)

Author: Alain Kerhervé

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-05-22

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 152755340X

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How did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other books, letter-writing manuals provided a possible solution. Although more than 160 editions can be traced for the eighteenth century, most manuals were largely intended for men. As a consequence, when The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was released in London in 1763, it was the first manual to be exclusively destined for women in eighteenth-century Britain. Even though it was published anonymously, several elements tend to show that it must have been edited by Edward Kimber. It was reprinted in Dublin in 1763 and in London in 1765 and largely circulated. The reasons for its success may have come from its concern in epistolary rhetoric, its original organisation, or the entertainment provided by examples coming from different sources, among which letters by Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Mary Collier, or the Marquise de Lambert. It also provided women with a variety of subjects which were supposed to be part of their sphere of interest, and others which were not, thus questioning a number of pre-conceived ideas on women and their way of writing with or without propriety. Unedited since 1765, the manual is now presented with introduction, notes and two indices focusing on the issues of sources, society and epistolary writing.