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Book Autograph Letter Signed from W H  Hunt  Hollingbury Copse  Brighton  to Mr  Croker

Download or read book Autograph Letter Signed from W H Hunt Hollingbury Copse Brighton to Mr Croker written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly written to T.F. Dillon Croker. Concerning the death of J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps. A postscript mentions an account of Halliwell-Phillipps' life published in the Liverpool Mercury.

Book Autograph Letter Signed from George R  Wright  Hollingbury Copse  Brighton  to T F  Dillon Croker

Download or read book Autograph Letter Signed from George R Wright Hollingbury Copse Brighton to T F Dillon Croker written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wright expresses his sympathy for the sudden death of Croker's friend, Mr. Sawyer; refers to Croker becoming the new editor of "Funny Folks." In the postscript Wright includes a short "Parliamentary Nursery Rhyme!" his "first contribution towards the new Editor's next issue of "Funny Folks." First line: Hold your dollar.

Book Autograph Letter Signed from J O  Halliwell Phillipps  Hollingbury Copse  Brighton  to George Latimer Apperson

Download or read book Autograph Letter Signed from J O Halliwell Phillipps Hollingbury Copse Brighton to George Latimer Apperson written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the controversy between Furnivall and Halliwell-Phillipps.

Book Autograph Letter Signed from James Orchard  Hollingsbury Copse  Brighton  to William Grose  Bookseller

Download or read book Autograph Letter Signed from James Orchard Hollingsbury Copse Brighton to William Grose Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States that it is a rule with him never to bother about autographs of Shakespeare in books. Any on deeds would interest him.

Book Autograph Letter Signed from J O  Halliwell Phillipps  Hollingbury Copse  Brighton  to Francis Bedford

Download or read book Autograph Letter Signed from J O Halliwell Phillipps Hollingbury Copse Brighton to Francis Bedford written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mentions that he is involved in a literary squabble "through no fault of his own."

Book Daughters of Queen Victoria

Download or read book Daughters of Queen Victoria written by E. F. Benson and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's pages contains the classic account of Queen Victoria's daughters by E. F. Benson. Using sources such letters and other writings Benson provides an immensely interesting insight into each of Victoria's daughters and their relationships with their mother and their royalty. Ben was a prolific writer of his time producing over 90 works. Queen Victoria's Daughters was first published in 1938 and is here republished with an introductory biography of the author.

Book Gloucestershire Notes and Queries

Download or read book Gloucestershire Notes and Queries written by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gloucestershire Notes and Queries

Download or read book Gloucestershire Notes and Queries written by Beaver Henry Blacker and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Everyday Objects

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tara Hamling
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-12-14
  • ISBN : 1351938118
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Everyday Objects written by Tara Hamling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them. Twenty-three specially written essays investigate the type of things that might have been considered 'everyday objects' in the medieval and early modern periods, and how they help us to understand the daily lives of those individuals for whom few other types of evidence survive - for instance people of lower status and women of all status groups. Everyday Objects presents new research by specialists from a range of disciplines to assess what the study of material culture can contribute to our understanding of medieval and early modern societies. Extending and developing key debates in the study of the everyday, the chapters provide analysis of such things as ceramics, illustrated manuscripts, pins, handbells, carved chimneypieces, clothing, drinking vessels, bagpipes, paintings, shoes, religious icons and the built fabric of domestic houses and guild halls. These things are examined in relation to central themes of pre-modern history; for instance gender, identity, space, morality, skill, value, ritual, use, belief, public and private behaviour, continental influence, materiality, emotion, technical innovation, status, competition and social mobility. This book offers both a collection of new research by a diverse range of specialists and a source book of current methodological approaches for the study of pre-modern material culture. The multi-disciplinary analysis of these 'everyday objects' by archaeologists, art historians, literary scholars, historians, conservators and museum practitioners provides a snapshot of current methodological approaches within the humanities. Although analysis of material culture has become an increasingly important aspect of the study of the past, previous research in this area has often remained confined to subject-specific boundaries. This book will therefore be an invaluable resource for researchers and students interested in learning about important new work which demonstrates the potential of material culture study to cut across traditional historiographies and disciplinary boundaries and access the lived experience of individuals in the past.

Book Material London  ca  1600

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2012-10-19
  • ISBN : 0812208390
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Material London ca 1600 written by Lena Cowen Orlin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of Elizabeth I's reign and the height of Shakespeare's theatrical career. In Material London, ca. 1600, Lena Cowen Orlin and a distinguished group of social, intellectual, urban, architectural, and agrarian historians, archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and literary critics explore the ideas, structures, and practices that distinguished London before the Great Fire, basing their investigations on the material traces in artifacts, playtexts, documents, graphic arts, and archaeological remains. In order to evoke "material London, ca. 1600," each scholar examines a different aspect of one of the great world cities at a critical moment in Western history. Several chapters give broad panoramic and authoritative views: what architectural forms characterized the built city around 1600; how the public theatre established its claim on the city; how London's citizens incorporated the new commercialism of their culture into their moral views. Other essays offer sharply focused studies: how Irish mantles were adopted as elite fashions in the hybrid culture of the court; how the city authorities clashed with the church hierarchy over the building of a small bookshop; how London figured in Ben Jonson's exploration of the role of the poet. Although all the authors situate the material world of early modern London—its objects, products, literatures, built environment, and economic practices—in its broader political and cultural contexts, provocative debates and exchanges remain both within and between the essays as to what constitutes "material London, ca. 1600."

Book Early Modern Things

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  • Author : Paula Findlen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-03-01
  • ISBN : 1351055720
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Early Modern Things written by Paula Findlen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came to define some of the key developments of the early modern world. Now in its second edition, this book taps a rich vein of recent scholarship to explore a variety of approaches to the material culture of the early modern world (c. 1500–1800). Divided into seven parts, the book explores the ambiguity of things, representing things, making things, encountering things, empires of things, consuming things, and the power of things. This edition includes a new preface and three new essays on ‘encountering things’ to enrich the volume. These look at cabinets of curiosities, American pearls, and the material culture of West Central Africa. Spanning across the early modern world from Ming dynasty China and Tokugawa Japan to Siberia and Georgian England, from the Kingdom of the Kongo and the Ottoman Empire to the Caribbean and the Spanish Americas, the authors provide a generous set of examples in how to study the circulation, use, consumption, and, most fundamentally, the nature of things themselves. Drawing on a broad range of disciplinary perspectives and lavishly illustrated, this updated edition of Early Modern Things is essential reading for all those interested in the early modern world and the history of material culture.

Book Shakespeare s Domestic Economies

Download or read book Shakespeare s Domestic Economies written by Natasha Korda and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, and Measure for Measure in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, marriage sermons, household inventories, and wills to explore the realities and dramatic representations of women's domestic roles, Natasha Korda departs from traditional accounts of the commodification of women, which maintain that throughout history women have been "trafficked" as passive objects of exchange between men. In the early modern period, Korda demonstrates, as newly available market goods began to infiltrate households at every level of society, women emerged as never before as the "keepers" of household properties. With the rise of consumer culture, she contends, the housewife's managerial function assumed a new form, becoming increasingly centered around caring for the objects of everyday life—objects she was charged with keeping as if they were her own, in spite of the legal strictures governing women's property rights. Korda deftly shows how their positions in a complex and changing social formation allowed women to exert considerable control within the household domain, and in some areas to thwart the rule of fathers and husbands.

Book Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook  in the County of Dublin  with an Appendix Containing Notes and Annals

Download or read book Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook in the County of Dublin with an Appendix Containing Notes and Annals written by Beaver Henry Blacker and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Elizabethan Top Ten

Download or read book The Elizabethan Top Ten written by Emma Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with histories of the book and of reading, as well as with studies of material culture, this volume explores ’popularity’ in early modern English writings. Is ’popular’ best described as a theoretical or an empirical category in this period? How can we account for the gap between modern canonicity and early modern print popularity? How might we weight the evidence of popularity from citations, serial editions, print runs, reworkings, or extant copies? Is something that sells a lot always popular, even where the readership for print is only a small proportion of the population, or does popular need to carry something of its etymological sense of the public, the people? Four initial chapters sketch out the conceptual and evidential issues, while the second part of the book consists of ten short chapters-a ’hit parade’- in which eminent scholars take a genre or a single exemplar - play, romance, sermon, or almanac, among other categories-as a means to articulate more general issues. Throughout, the aim is to unpack and interrogate assumptions about the popular, and to decentre canonical narratives about, for example, the sermons of Donne or Andrewes over Smith, or the plays of Shakespeare over Mucedorus. Revisiting Elizabethan literary culture through the lenses of popularity, this collection allows us to view the subject from an unfamiliar angle-in which almanacs are more popular than sonnets and proclamations more numerous than plays, and in which authors familiar to us are displaced by names now often forgotten.

Book Unpacking the Collection

Download or read book Unpacking the Collection written by Sarah Byrne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behind glass cases. By focusing on the dynamic histories of museum collections, new research reveals their pivotal role in shaping a wide range of social relations. Over time and across space the interactions between these artefacts and the people and institutions who made, traded, collected, researched and exhibited them have generated complex networks of material and social agency. In this innovative volume, the contributors draw on a broad range of source materials to explore the cross-cultural interactions which have created museum collections. These case studies contribute significantly to the development of new theoretical frameworks to examine broader questions of materiality, agency, and identity in the past and present. Grounded in case studies from individual objects and museum collections from North America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Australia, this truly international volume juxtaposes historical, geographical, and cross-cultural studies. This work will be of great interest to archaeologists and anthropologists studying material culture, as well as researchers in museum studies and cultural heritage management.