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Daily life in Georgian England as reported in the Gentleman's magazine / Emily Lorraine de Montluzin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine.
- Series:
- Studies in British and American magazines ; v. 14.
- Studies in British and American magazines ; v. 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Manners and customs.
- England--Social life and customs--18th century--Anecdotes.
- England.
- England--Social life and customs--19th century--Anecdotes.
- Great Britain--History--George I, 1714-1727--Anecdotes.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--George II, 1727-1760--Anecdotes.
- Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820--Anecdotes.
- Great Britain--History--George IV, 1820-1830--Anecdotes.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 370 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Crime and Punishment 11
- Hanging, Drawing, and Quartering, 1731
- Trials by Ordeal for Witchcraft, 1731-59
- Sample Sentences, 1731-79
- Spousal Abuse, 1732-37
- Conspiracy, Abortion, and the Pillory, 1732
- Flogging 'round the Fleet, 1735
- Justice Deferred at the Reading Assizes: Pin Money and Conjugal Rights, 1735
- The Press (Peine Forte et Dure), 1735
- Penalty for Suicide, 1735-55
- Highway Robbery: The Career of Dick Turpin, 1737-39
- The Hanged Man Redivivus: Coming Back to Life on the Anatomist's Table, 1740
- Suppression of the Rebellion of the 'Forty-Five, 1746-47
- "Horrid Cruelties": Elizabeth Brownrigg's Treatment of Her Apprentices, 1767
- Innovation in Hangings: The Newgate Drop, 1783
- Hanging and Burning at the Stake, 1786-88
- Execution of Robert Watt for High Treason, 1794
- The Tread Mill, 1822
- Chapter 2. Medicine 51
- Tapping for the Dropsy, 1732
- Death from Rabies, 1735
- Cure for the Bloody Flux, 1736
- Rabies Prevention: Killing the Dogs of Edinburgh, 1738
- Birth Defects Explained, 1746
- Quack Cures, 1752
- Cataract Surgery, 1754
- Cutting for the Stone, 1754
- Leeches for Headache, 1762
- Remedy for Bedbugs, 1764
- Conditions in Private Madhouses, 1766
- The London Mortality Bill, 1767
- Cure for Breast Cancer, 1768
- Cure for Tubercular Lung Hemorrhages, 1782
- Experiment with Blood Transfusion, 1784
- Inoculation for Smallpox, 1787
- George III and the Onset of Porphyria, 1788-89
- Samuel Ayscough's Method for Killing Black Beetles in London Kitchens, 1791
- Death of a Tippling Welshman, 1793
- Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793
- Edward Jenner's Vaccination for Smallpox Announced, 1798-99
- Death by Burning, 1799
- Death of Queen Caroline, 1821
- Cholera Epidemic, 1831
- Chapter 3. Science, Natural History, and Archaeology 99
- Supposed Capture of a Merman, 1737
- The Excavations at Herculaneum, 1743-49
- George Smith of Wigton, Cumbria: Traveler, Naturalist, and Proponent of Romanticism of the Sublime, 1748-51
- Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod, 1750
- Benjamin Franklin's Experiment with the Kite and the Key, 1752
- The Gregorian Calendar Reform and the Glastonbury Thorn, 1752-53
- The Lisbon Earthquake, 1755
- Halley's Comet, 1756-59
- Captain James Cook's Voyage in the Endeavour, 1768-71
- Rev. John Duncombe's "Curious, and ... Non-Descript, Reptile, ... Uncommonly Large and Beautiful," 1778
- William Herschel's Discovery of Uranus ("The Georgian Planet"), 1781
- First Balloon Flight in Britain, 1784
- The Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789
- The Rosetta Stone, 1801-02
- Chapter 4. Preaching the Gospel 147
- Suppression of Private Mass Houses, 1735-38
- John Wesley's Missionary Activities among the Chickasaws, 1736
- George Whitefield's Ministry, 1739
- The Dimensions and Capacity of Noah's Ark Described, 1749
- Anti-Methodist Riots in Norwich, 1752
- Consecration of Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut, 1784
- Robert Raikes and the Sunday School Movement, 1784
- Chapter 5. The Debates of the Senate of Lilliput 175
- The Fall of Sir Robert Walpole, 1741-42
- Chapter 6. News from America 191
- Oglethorpe's Treaty with the Creek Nation, 1733
- Visit of the Chief of the Yamacraw Tribe to George II, 1734
- Two Views of Slavery in the Colonies: Suppression of a Slave Uprising on Antigua, 1736; Start-up Costs of a South Carolina Indigo Plantation, 1755
- Fire in Charleston, 1740
- Raising the Liberty Bell, 1753
- Braddock Ambushed near Fort Duquesne, 1755
- The Stamp Act, 1765-66
- Lexington and Concord, 1775
- George Washington's Reception in Philadelphia en Route to His First Inauguration, 1789
- Obituary for George Washington, 1799
- Chapter 7. The French Revolution 229
- The Fall of the Bastille, 1789
- The "October Days," 1789
- The September Massacres, 1792
- The Sentencing of Louis XVI, 1793
- The Execution of Louis XVI, 1793
- The Death of Robespierre, 1794
- The Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
- Chapter 8. Riots, Radicalism, and Reform 275
- The Gordon Riots, 1780
- The "Church and King" Riots [Priestley Riots], 1791
- The Peterloo Massacre, 1819
- The Thistlewood Plot [Cato Street Conspiracy], 1820
- The Reform Bill Riots in Bristol, 1831
- Chapter 9. Literary Judgments 315
- Sir John Fielding's War on The Beggar's Opera, 1773
- "A Woman of Uncommon Talents": Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-98
- "Such Abominable Trash as Modern Novels," 1808
- The Best-Selling Novel of Its Day: Hannah More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife, 1809
- "Amusing, if Not Instructive": Jane Austen's Emma, 1816
- "No Ordinary Writer": Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, 1818
- "An Archangel Ruined": Byron, The Bride of Abydos, Cain, and Don Juan, 1814-22
- "We Ought as Justly to Regret the Decease of the Devil": The Death of Shelley, 1822.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-357) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0773473513
- OCLC:
- 47208587
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