A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss. Catherine Talbot, from the Year 1741 to 1770, Vol. 3 Of 4

A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss. Catherine Talbot, from the Year 1741 to 1770, Vol. 3 Of 4

Author: Elizabeth Carter

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780266729648

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Excerpt from A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss. Catherine Talbot, From the Year 1741 to 1770, Vol. 3 of 4: To Which Are Added, Letters From Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, Between the Years 1763 and 1787; Published From the Original Manuscripts in the Possession of the Rev. Montagu Pennington, M.A., Vicar of Northbourn, in Kent, Her Nephew and Executor The Same to the Same. Mas. Carter to Muss Talhot, Miss Talbot 10 Mrs. Carter, M13 Carter to Miss Talhot, m'ps Talbot to Mrs. Carter, 32h: Same to the Same. The Same to the Same. {the Same to the Same. The Same to the Same, The Same to the Same, The Same to the Same, 3. Carter to Miss Talbot, 158 Talbot to Mrs. Carter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 13

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 13

Author: Royal Historical Society

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-12-18

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780521830768

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The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume thirteen of the sixth series includes the following articles: Presidential Address: England and the Continent in the ninth century: Vikings and Others; According to ancient custom: the restoration of altars in the Restoration Church of England; Einhard: the sinner and the saints; Migrants, immigrants and welfare from the Old Poor Law to the Welfare State; Jack Tar and the gentleman officer: the role of uniform in shaping the class- and gender-related identities of British naval personnel, 1930-1939; Writing fornication: medieval Leyrwite and its historians; Resistance, reprisal and community in Occupied France, 1941-1944. There is also a themed section which looks at 'Architecture and History'.


Looking for Longitude

Looking for Longitude

Author: Katy Barrett

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2022-11-17

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1802070974

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Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth’s London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth’s prints – a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake’s Progress in 1735 – to unpick the visual, mental and social concerns which entwined around the national concern to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body – the Board of Longitude – established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors, and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude’s most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison.