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Resplendent Revolution: Gems of the 18th Century: MoMA Database Discoveries Part IV: Stomachers
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Monday, February 1, 2010. MoMA Database Discoveries Part IV: Stomachers. A stomacher is a front panel that hooks into the front-sides of the gown. These panels are usually very ornate and can involve beautiful embroidery and trims, like these! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). MoMA Database Discoveries Part IV: Stomachers. 18th Century American Architecture. 18th Century Literature and Letters. Clothing of the 1700's at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Glossary of 18th Century Costuming Terms.
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I lodge in Grub Street: February 2014
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Exciting writing from the eighteenth century and now. Friday, 21 February 2014. Samuel Johnson and Mental Health. Yet he would never have considered himself mentally ill, nor were such concepts explained to him would he have even accepted the notion of mental illness. This is the portrait of a person who is an. Active participant in his mental state. 8221; he would have roared, “Nothing but cant.”. Labels: At Home With Samuel Johnson. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Into the Big City. Death of a Dreamonger.
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I lodge in Grub Street: Top Ten Eighteenth Century Works (Part One)
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Exciting writing from the eighteenth century and now. Wednesday, 1 April 2015. Top Ten Eighteenth Century Works (Part One). In January I made a list of my top fifteen favourite books of the previous year. I had wondered why the list had been fifteen and not the usual ten, then I tried it. It was hard. I’ve decided to split this up, 5 today and five tomorrow. So with no more ado…. Pompey the Little by Francis Coventry. The novel doesn’t get boring. Pompey moves from owner to owner with such rapi...8220;&#...
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I lodge in Grub Street: Under the Glass.... Two - Might as well be cucumbers.
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Exciting writing from the eighteenth century and now. Tuesday, 10 March 2015. Under the Glass. Two - Might as well be cucumbers. One of the best things about quotes is how, once out of the body of the work they originate from, they are open to as much abuse as you want to give them. Today I am going to bash three quotes together to make a little conversation. The old peripatetic principle that n. Samuel Johnson, Rambler 85. Better to think about cucumbers even, then not to think at all. About eighteenth ...
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I lodge in Grub Street: Top Ten Eighteenth Century Works (Part Two)
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Exciting writing from the eighteenth century and now. Saturday, 11 April 2015. Top Ten Eighteenth Century Works (Part Two). And here it is, after the clamouring, shouting and pleading; the second part of the Top Ten Eighteenth Century Works. Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart. The only person to have two entries on the list but I don’t think it’s cheating, the Christopher Smart who wrote Jubilate Agno is not the same as the one who wrote The Midwife. I would recommend that anybody try this book out.
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I lodge in Grub Street: June 2014
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Exciting writing from the eighteenth century and now. Wednesday, 18 June 2014. Review: The Governess or Little Female Academy by Sarah Fielding. It's not rock 'n' roll but I like it. The cover sleeve and introductions make large claims for this book, written by Sarah Fielding in 1749. It calls it the first school novel, the first educational book and the first children's novel in English. I am not convinced it is a novel, there isn't enough plot or general happening for that. This book is very safe. ...
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I lodge in Grub Street: November 2014
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Exciting writing from the eighteenth century and now. Thursday, 27 November 2014. Monday the 1st of December, all invited. On Monday, December the 1st I shall be performing a bit of Death of a Dreamonger. In the Brixton Bookjam. It describes itself as ‘congenial, intelligent, unpredictable and eclectic.’ I’m hoping to provide the congenial and eclectic. If anyone wants to come and have a look, the Brixton Bookjam starts at 7:30 at the Hootenanny pub on Effra road on December the 1st. The second is to see...
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I lodge in Grub Street: May 2014
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Exciting writing from the eighteenth century and now. Monday, 19 May 2014. Review: Pompey the Little. I recently read ‘Down and Out in 18th Century London’ by Tim Hitchcock and although I was sometimes lurched about by the anecdotal style, I enjoyed it and was pointed to a number of other interesting works. One of these was ‘Pompey the Little’ by Francis Coventry. How could I resist a book centring on a Bologna lapdog? The meeting of writers is torn apart by argument and Mr Rhymer walks home ‘in a ...
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I lodge in Grub Street: Goldsmith and the bed bugs,
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Exciting writing from the eighteenth century and now. Tuesday, 9 June 2015. Goldsmith and the bed bugs,. As well as these, I am writing this new draft of Dreamonger, which comes on apace. It’s fiddly work though, each small change creates larger ones further on and it almost feels like writing a new book. I feel the voice is changing as I go, becoming closer to the voice in my more recent writing. He describes them thus;. 8216;By day it lurks, like a robber, in the most secret parts of the bed; takes the...
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I lodge in Grub Street: July 2014
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Exciting writing from the eighteenth century and now. Sunday, 6 July 2014. Locations.Locations.(you know the rest). Crowdfunding keeps on going, yesterday my Dad and I buttonholed people outside of Waterstones in Piccadilly Circus where we got a lot of nice comments and not all that many sniffy ones. I had do buy a new laptop, the old one served me well but gave up the ghost, I am typing this on a laptop I have nicknamed 'The Major', due to the goggly eyes and moustache I have fixed to it.
