The Monk [aka Le moine] (2011)
When I was preparing my Dark Hero unit (here) in 2010 I went looking for film versions of the books I included, like Christopher Marlowe’s Faustus, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Matthew Lewis's...
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Home Decorating and Library interior design
There is a bit in Arlo Guthrie’s Vietnam-war-era, draft-dodging-spoken-word song, "Alice's Restaurant" which comes to mind almost every time I happen across an article about home decorating with...
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Frankenbook; Or, What Goes Around, Comes Around
As you can see, this copy of Eliza Haywood’s Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Gentleman has had a hard life. Verryyy hard. At some point in the eighteenth century this book was the treasured possession...
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Frankenbook Returns!
I mentioned in my last post that I wasn’t about to stop buying copies of the works in my Haywood Bibliography, “unless it be to withstand the malice of the seller or to await a more favourable...
View ArticleBoswell's Journals Online
There are basically twelve volumes in the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell (i.e., the Trade Edition; listed on Wikipedia here).** Of these it is—surprisingly—possible to download...
View ArticlePope and the Revolution in Haywood’s Stile
Lætitia Pilkington, celebrated Anglo-Irish poet, satirist and memoirist, makes a passing reference to Haywood while discussing, periphrastically, accusations made about herself by an unnamed “Lady of...
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A Volume To Be Delivered Every Month
Late last December I found on Google Books a curious advertisement (below) for Haywood’s Betsy Thoughtless (1751) and Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy (1753). The advertisement in question appears only twice on...
View ArticleGood Paper, Crappy Paper, Large Paper etc
I have been examining eighteenth-century auction catalogues and was puzzled by an abbreviation I found in one of them: "Ch. opt." After a lot of faffing about online I established only that this was an...
View ArticleAmerican Book-Prices Current, Book-Prices Current, Book Auction Records etc
Most of the early volumes of American Book-Prices Current (ABPC) are available online, some of them many times over, thanks to the Internet Archive. Unfortunately, the Internet Archive suck at...
View ArticleThe Female Spectator in Italian
La Spettatrice (1752)—Ab.60.15 in my Bibliography of Eliza Haywood—is a translation from the French into Italian of the first six books of Eliza Haywood’s The Female Spectator (1744–46). The...
View ArticleEliza Haywood Reviews, Texts, Links etc
[For Eliza Haywood texts, links etc., and recent criticism of the same, see here; for texts, links etc., specifically related to Haywood's life, contemporary biographical accounts etc, see here. For...
View ArticleContemporary Reviews of Haywood's The Wife (1756)
Below are transcripts of two contemporary reviews of Eliza Haywood's The Wife (1756), with links to the original texts (now on Google Books). See here for a complete list of early reviews of Haywood's...
View ArticleContemporary Reviews of Haywood's The Husband (1756)
Below are transcripts of two contemporary reviews of Eliza Haywood's The Husband (1756), with links to the original texts (now on Google Books). See here for a complete list of early reviews of...
View ArticleAnother French Review of The Female Spectator
I mentioned here that the “Avvertimento” (the preface) to the Italian translation of Eliza Haywood’s The Female Spectator (1744–46) quotes from a glowing review of this journal in the “Biblioteca...
View ArticleBibliothèque Britannique, 1733-1747
Bibliothèque Britannique, ou Histoire des Ouvrages des Savans de la Grande-Bretagne is one of the lesser-known eighteenth-century French journals which reviewed English books for French readers. It has...
View ArticleContemporary Reviews of Haywood's History of Leonora Meadowson (1788)
Below are transcripts of two contemporary reviews of Eliza Haywood's The History of Miss Leonora Meadowson (1788), a revision of Cleomelia (1726), with links to the original texts (now on Google...
View ArticleContemporary Reviews of Haywood's Clementina (1768)
Below are transcripts of three contemporary reviews of Eliza Haywood's Clementina (1768), a revision of The Agreeable Caledonian (1728–29), with links to the original texts (now on Google Books). See...
View ArticleContemporary Reviews of Haywood's New Present for a Servant-Maid (1771)
Below are transcripts of two contemporary reviews of Eliza Haywood's A New Present for a Servant-Maid (1771), a revision of A Present for a Servant-Maid (1743), with links to the original texts (now on...
View ArticleThe Gentleman’s Magazine on Google Books
vol. 1 (1731): herevol. 2 (1732): herevol. 3 (1733): herevol. 4 (1734): herevol. 5 (1735): herevol. 6 (1736): herevol. 7 (1737): herevol. 8 (1738): herevol. 9 (1739): herevol. 10 (1740): herevol. 11...
View ArticleTranslating the Naughty Bits in Pepy's Diary
I recently stumbled upon a site dedicated to translating the coded passages in Samuel Pepys Diary (here): that is, a site where all the naughtiest naughty bits are translated, the bits which Pepys...
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