The Siblys of London : a family on the esoteric fringes of Georgian England / Susan Mitchell Sommers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sommers, Susan Mitchell, 1961- author.

Series:

Oxford studies in Western esotericism.

Oxford studies in western esotericism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800.

Sibly, E.

Sibly, Manoah, 1757-1840.

Sibly, Manoah.

Occultism--England--London--History--18th century.

Occultism.

Occultism--England--London--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2018

Summary:

Recent historical accounts of aspects of life during the long eighteenth century are replete with fascinating vignettes of little-known figures. As individual sketches, they are illustrative of larger arguments, but the assumption has been that, in general, scholars have already retrieved all the information they could about socially or historically obscure characters, and consequently nothing else has been sought. But over the past few decades, techniques and technologies have dramatically changed the landscape of biographical research. This is demonstrated in the current study, a biographical microhistory of shoemaker Edmund Sibly, his sons Ebenezer, Manoah, and Job, daughter Charity, and granddaughter Urania.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Dramatis Personae 2. A Portsmouth Interlude 3. A Bristol Bookseller 4. The College for Instruction in Elementary Philosophy 5. Nicholas Culpeper Redivivus 6. Father Noah 7. Dr Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture 8. The Good Doctor? 9. The Plagiarist 10. Manoah's Songs of Experience 11. A Political Age 12. Manoah's Songs of Innocence 13. Ebenezer Sibly's Wondrous Library 14. The Doctor's Daughter Conclusions Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-068734-7

0-19-068735-5

0-19-068733-9