Frances Brooke, Editor, and the Making of the Old Maid (1755–1756)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn R. King
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Old Maid

Kathryn King’s essay takes as its focus Frances Brooke’s Old Maid (1755–6), one of several crucial texts in a burst of female periodical editorial activity at mid-century. It offers a fresh reading of information about the Old Maid’s contributors, focusing especially on the marginal notes to the original issues inscribed by the paper’s chief contributor Lord Orrery. These annotations, King reveals, constitute a largely unquarried source of information about Brooke’s practices and her understanding of her role as editor. They moreover, cast light on her ambiguous relationship with the nobleman who supplied nearly a quarter of the paper’s contents. Brooke’s own contributions receive dedicated attention before King concludes by assessing why the female editor is often passed over in the stories we tell of female authorship in the eighteenth century.

AFRICAN IVORIES AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH ANTIQUARIANS

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 347-362
Author(s):  
William Hart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
Late Renaissance ◽  
Source Of Information

In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, artists in West Africa made sophisticated ivory carvings specifically for the early Portuguese navigators and their patrons. In researching the history of the ivories, the records of eighteenth-century English antiquarians are a neglected yet important source of information. Such sources help to bridge the gap between the earliest references to Afro-Portuguese ivories in Portuguese customs records (as well as the inventories of royal and princely treasuries of the late Renaissance) and their re-appearance in nineteenth-century museum registers and the collections of private individuals.Especially valuable in this regard are the eighteenth-century minutes of the Society of Antiquaries of London, which enable us to trace the history of several African ivories associated with Fellows of the Society – in particular, Richard Rawlinson, Martin Folkes, Sir Hans Sloane, George Vertue and George Allan. In this article, the author reassesses two African ivories, an oliphant and a saltcellar, with specific reference to the Minutes of the Society of Antiquaries of London, shedding new light on the history of these beautiful objects.

scholarly journals Visualising Female Authorship. Author Portraits and the Representation of Female Literary Authority in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic

Quaerendo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-314
Author(s):  
Lieke van Deinsen
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Book Market ◽  
Literary Authority ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Male Dominated

Abstract This article discusses printed author portraits of women writers as vehicles of public image in the male-dominated eighteenth-century book market. It shows how Dutch women writers responded to the growing demand for author portraits and used their portrait engravings to shape their public image. It proved to be a fine line between showcasing literary aspirations and maintaining female modesty.

XXXIII Dunmanway, County Cork, 1746–9

1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (78) ◽  
pp. 170-175
Author(s):  
Douglas G. Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Textile Manufacturing ◽  
Founder Member ◽  
Textile Industries ◽  
Linen Industry ◽  
The Village ◽  
Source Of Information

Irish newspapers are a valuable source of information for studies of the development of textile industries and their impact on the growth of towns and villages during the first half of the eighteenth century. A search has revealed two advertisements relating to the village of Dunmanway, situated in an isolated location near the source of the River Bandon in County Cork, which in the mid-eighteenth century was an important centre of textile manufacturing. Contemporary descriptions of Dunmanway include the reports of inspectors to the Linen Board, correspondence between Sir Richard Cox, the village landowner, and Thomas Prior, a founder member of the Dublin Society and an essay by Prior which described the characteristics of the Irish linen industry.

scholarly journals Chinese Gardens as a Nativity Scene: Matteo Ripa’s Description of the Kangxi Emperor’s Changchun Garden in Beijing

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 175-188
Author(s):  
Albert Kozik
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Chinese Gardens ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Chinese Court ◽  
The Way

This article examines the description of the Changchun Garden in eighteenth-century Beijing, featured in Matteo Ripa’s Storia della Fondazione della Congregazione e del Collegio de’ Cinesi. An Italian missionary at the court of the Kangxi Emperor, Ripa had a chance to see and describe both the imperial parks and the intricacies of Chinese court etiquette. His detailed account, a precious source of information on the Changchun park, was accompanied by commentaries aimed at explaining the differences between “European” and “Chinese” aesthetic values. Therefore, this article offers a critical analysis of the account as a historical source, discussing the accuracy of some of the details described by Ripa, and subsequently provides an interpretation of the way he perceived Chinese parks, with an emphasis on his explanations of the “Chinese style” of laying out gardens. Finally, the last part of the article is dedicated to a comparison between a Neapolitan nativity scene (presepio) and the Qing gardens as drawn by Ripa at the end of his description, in order to demonstrate the “artificial naturalness” of Chinese parks.

Dorothea Schlegel and the Challenges of Female Authorship and Identity

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Brigitte Sassen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Friedrich Schlegel ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Women Intellectuals ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
And Gender

In this chapter, I explore the particular social, religious, and gender pressures faced by eighteenth-century women authors by considering these pressures within the context of three stages of the life of Dorothea Schlegel (born Brendel Mendelssohn): first, in her early life and first marriage, secondly, in her emergence as an intellectual and author during the years in Jena with Friedrich Schlegel and the early Romantics, and thirdly, in her post-Jena years when she was active as a translator and story-teller. The chapter looks at the reasons for her dissatisfaction with her first marriage and considers how women intellectuals and writers were viewed in the eighteenth century.

Negotiating Female Authorship in Eighteenth-Century India: Gender and Multilingualism in a Persian Text

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-466
Author(s):  
ZAHRA SHAH
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractIn the last years of the eighteenth century, an Indian woman authored a work in Persian intended for the entertainment and guidance of students of that language. EntitledMiftāḥ-i Qulūb-i Mubtadiyān(‘The Key of the Hearts of Beginners’), the work comprised of stories from vernacular oral traditions as well as extracts from well-known Persian poetic, historical and ethical works. Although the work was translated into English in 1908 by Annette Beveridge, it has received no serious scholarly attention. Drawing upon recent scholarship offering new ways of thinking about India's multilingual literary past, this article examines the intersection of multiple vernacular and generic traditions as translated and manifested inMiftāḥ-i Qulūb al-Mubtadīyān. While vernacular languages followed different, and in relative terms, more limited routes of circulation and exchange in comparison with cosmopolitan languages such as Persian, their paths of movement were no less significant. Through a close reading of this work and its context, this article seeks to understand how Bībī Ḥashmat al-Daula crafted a distinct, cosmopolitan voice for herself through her deployment of both Persianate and regional Indian traditions.

scholarly journals Joseph Banks and Charles Blagden: cultures of advancement in the scientific worlds of late eighteenth-century London and Paris

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Wills
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Scientific Exchange ◽  
Scientific Outputs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Source Of Information

This paper explores the relationship between Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, and Charles Blagden, secretary to Banks and the Society between 1784 and 1797. Blagden is often referred to as one of Banks's key assistants, as a trusted adviser, collaborator and source of information. Yet, despite his significance, the nature of Blagden's association with Banks has not been explored in detail. This paper traces the development of their sometimes tumultuous relationship, exposing it as one in which Blagden, an aspiring gentleman, sought Banks's patronage to further his career and social ambitions. Key to Blagden's strategy was his role as a source of information for Banks from Paris. Yet, while Blagden pursued patronage with Banks in London, on visits to Paris he encountered a situation where merit, in terms of published scientific outputs, determined one's membership of the scientific community. Exploration of these conflicting cultures of advancement—patronage versus advancement through merit—here informs a re-assessment of scientific exchange at a key moment in Blagden's career, the 1783 ‘water controversy’. The limitations of Banks's patronage for ambitious clients are also explored, in the context of a rupture in the relationship between Blagden and Banks at the end of the 1780s.

scholarly journals DEVOTIONAL DISCOURSE AND FEMALE AUTHORSHIP: FROM THE STEELE CIRCLE TO MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

SYNERGY ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adina CIUGUREANU
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
The Other ◽  
Devotional Poetry ◽  
Age Of Reason ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
The Way ◽  
Romantic Aesthetics

The article brings into discussion the case of a few exceptional women who wrote, published, and became popular in the Age of Reason as poets, critics, and activists. They were considered as Nonconformist because they belonged to the Baptist or Unitarian Church and did not follow the mainstream Church of England views. On the other hand, the end of the eighteenth century witnessed the rise of Romantic aesthetics and of a number of nature poets. The questions this article attempts to answer refer both to the influence of the Biblical discourse on a group of women’s literary and non-literary productions and to the way in which the emerging Romantic aesthetics also impacted their work. How did devotional poetry go along Romantic principles and feminist views? Anne Steele’s and Mary Steele’s poetry, Mary Scott’s and Mary Wollstonecraft’s feminist agenda will be highlighted in the analysis.

scholarly journals Het gebruik van “Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën” van François Valentyn door bewindhebbers van de VOC in de achttiende eeuw

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Siegfried Huigen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Central Government ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Dutch East India Company ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Personal Archives ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
The Way

This article discusses the circulation of information extracted from François Valentyn’s Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (1724–1726) during the eighteenth century, both with regards to the central organs of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the Netherlands and the VOC establishments in the East Indies. First, three documents are analysed that were part of five VOC directors’ personal archives, with the aim to determine the way these directors made use of Valentyn’s book. It is concluded that for these directors Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën was probably the most important source of information about the VOC’s trading empire, while at the same time their epistemic interest was limited to matters of trade. Second, the usage of Valentyn’s book in various VOC establishments in the East Indies is assessed on the basis of correspondence between these establishments with the VOC central government in Batavia. Because of the fact that Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën was used simultaneously as a source of information by several actors, both in the Netherlands and in the East Indies, this might have resulted in standardising the operational knowledge of the East Indies within the VOC network.

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