London Booksellers and American Customers
London Booksellers and American Customers

Author: James Raven

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9781570034060

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In 1994, James Raven encountered a letterbook from the Charleston Library Society detailing the ordering, processing, and shipping of texts from London booksellers to their American customers. The 120 letters, covering the period 1758-1811, provided unique material for understanding the business of London booksellers (for whom very little correspondence has survived) and Raven decided to publish an annotated edition of the letters. The letterbook, reproduced in its entirety, forms an appendix to the present volume, but Raven's study has blossomed from a relatively narrow examination of booksellers and their customers to a larger exploration of the role of books and institutions such as the Library Society in the formation of elite cultural identity on the fringes of empire. As a result, this meticulously researched book has much to offer scholars of gentry culture and community in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world as well as historians of the book--Publisher's Description.

Jane Austen's England
Jane Austen's England

Author: Roy Adkins

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1101622865

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An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday existence depicted in her classic novels as well as those by Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people, discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions. From chores like fetching water to healing with medicinal leeches, from selling wives in the marketplace to buying smuggled gin, from the hardships faced by young boys and girls in the mines to the familiar sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, Jane Austen’s England offers an authoritative and gripping account that is sometimes humorous, often shocking, but always entertaining.

Monstrous Imagination
Monstrous Imagination

Author: Marie-Hélène Huet

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780674586512

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What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny.

Literary London
Literary London

Author: Eloise Millar

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

Published: 2016-08-04

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1782435050

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Literary London is a snappy and informative guide, showing just why - as another famous local writer put it - he who is tired of London is tired of life.

A History of the British Presence in Chile
A History of the British Presence in Chile

Author: W. Edmundson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-10-26

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0230101216

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This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending with the decline of British influence following the Second World War.