tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77759104750892642572024-03-19T03:19:26.471-04:00The Duchess of Devonshire's Gossip Guide to the 18th CenturyScandalous tid-bits from England's finest socialite of the Georgian age.Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.comBlogger1172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-3965268607839979862018-07-27T09:21:00.000-04:002018-07-27T09:21:16.571-04:00Female Academics in the Eighteenth Century<i>I</i> was alerted on Twitter that yesterday was the anniversary of the death of Elena Cornaro Piscopia - which is as fun a name to spell as it it is to pronounce, but alas, many are still unfamiliar with Elena.<br />
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Elena was a Venetian who, in 1678, was the first woman to receive her PhD. Her doctorate was in Philosophy as her true love, Theology was deemed inappropriate for woman - baby steps toward progress, I suppose. She was awarded it at the age of 32 which I personally think an excellent age to gain a PhD *wink*. Elena's successes has made me wonder about female academics in the age of Enlightenment, though. Sadly, sexism and gender division was still rampant during the so-called Age of Enlightenment and that unfortunately didn't produce many female academics. However, that did mean the few to come out of the eighteenth century, were exceptional women indeed.<br />
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<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Laura_Bassi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="238" height="320" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Laura_Bassi.jpg" width="225" /></a>Dr Laura Bassi, was another Italian woman who earned her PhD in 1732. Unlike Elena, Laura was interested in the Sciences, more specifically, Physics. She defended her thesis at the age of 20 (!), becoming the second woman to hold a doctorate, 54 years after Elena. She devoted much of her academic career to spreading the study of Newtonian mechanics to Italy. In 1776, at the age of 65, she applied and was appointed to the chair in
experimental physics by the Bologna Institute of Sciences, making her the first woman to earn a professorship. Perhaps the best part: her
supportive husband, who also had his doctorate, became her teaching assistant.<br />
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The mathematician, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, like Laura Bassi, would also be elected to a chair. In 1750 she became a professor of mathematics,natural philosophy, and physics at the University of Bologna which was apparently a very forward-thinking university in the eighteenth century. Maria was an amazing mathematician, the likes of which I could never convey as someone who struggles with basic arithmetics.<br />
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If you're not Italian and starting to feel ashamed for your country of origins' historic lack of female empowerment in academia, have no fear, there is one more female academic. Oh wait...she's Italian too.<br />
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<a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8530424x/f1.highres" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="532" height="320" src="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8530424x/f1.highres" width="212" /></a>Dr Maria Pellegrina Amoretti was awarded her Doctor of Law at the University of Pavia at the age of 20 (!) in 1777. She initially applied to the University of Turin but was turned away because of her sex - get with the times, Turin! Sadly, she only lived for a decade more after receiving her degree but in that time she worked on dowry laws, meaning she used her privileged position to help make other women's lives better.Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com157tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-42328047617294856582018-07-13T07:14:00.000-04:002018-07-13T07:14:06.218-04:00British and French Print Media's and the Death of Marat<i>O</i>n this day in 1793 a young French woman named Charlotte Corday sought a meeting with the prominent French revolutionary, Jean-Paul Marat, promising information on an future uprising. After being turned away in the morning, Corday was admitted in the evening to Marat's bathroom, where he conducted business now due to a debilitating skin disease that kept him submerged in his bathtub. Corday recited the names of dissidents while Marat wrote them down, proclaiming that they would soon be guillotined. This was Corday's cue; she drew out a kitchen knife hidden in her clothing and stabbed Marat in his chest, killing him almost instantly. She then calmly waited for the police to apprehend her and was guillotined four days later.<br />
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Corday hoped that this act of violence would put an end to the violence of the French Revolution which she felt was now out of hand. She blamed Marat for the excessive and repulsive bloodshed and she was not alone in this sentiment. A search in the British Museum's collection of prints reveals a stark contrast in how France and Britain interpreted the assassination. <br />
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Corday is often portrayed in French prints as a savage (though well-dressed) beast of a woman.<br />
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Whereas in British prints she is often depicted as a pretty young woman stabbing a buffoon. One example is <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.com/2008/05/gossip-from-france-charlotte-corday.html" target="_blank">my favourite image of Corday, by James Gillray</a> which portrays her with the dignity and grace of an eighteenth-century heroine. <br />
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There are many depictions of the event by French and British printmakers that survive and of course, not all of them can fit within these two categories. Notably this French print which is thought to have been printed a few years after the dust had settled and seems to give an accurate representation of Corday's arrest. She sits patiently, next to victim while men rush in to apprehend her.<br />
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<i>H</i>enry Howard was a well-known portraitist and history painter in the late- eighteenth and early- nineteenth centuries, who unfortunately doesn't get as much notice nowadays. Luckily, his visit to the Devonshire family around 1798 resulted in three portraits of Georgiana's three [legitimate] <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Devonshire%20Progeny" target="">children</a>, <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Georgiana%20%22Little%20G%22%20Countess%20of%20Carlisle">Little G</a>, <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Harriet%20%22Harryo%22%20Countess%20Granville">Harryo</a>, and <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/William%20%27Hart%27%206th%20Duke%20of%20Devonshire">Hart</a>. Though, I must apologise for the not-so-great quality of the photos of these portraits which now hang in the <a href="http://spencerofalthorp.com/rooms/the-king-william-room/" target="_blank">King William bedroom</a> at Althorp, you can still decipher a certain <i>je ne sais quoi</i> quality to these portraits. What is it...what is it...oh I know!<br />
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These three portraits were painted when the painfully shy Little G was about 15, the painfully awkward Harryo was about 13, and Hart (who, perhaps, doesn't look totally uncomfortable) was about 9 or 10. The ages of the daughters, specifically, is of interest because, outside of the rare family group portrait, adolescence is rarely commemorated in portraiture. Baby and childhood portraits were common enough, and young women were often painted before they were married, or at least when they were in the marriage market. However, this strange and, somewhat brief, period of youth was rarely portrayed in individual portraits. <br />
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You can almost imagine adult Little G and Harryo cringing every time they passed these portraits; cursing their hair do and choice of headband. While Little G's posture hints at a discomfort in sitting for her portrait, Harryo's somewhat more confident pose is mismatched with her still childish appearance. ...and yeah, um, Hart just looks like any elite little boy-heir of the time in his portrait, so I'm just gonna leave that here as a contrast to his poor sisters. In conclusion, rich eighteenth-century teenagers, they're just like us. That would make the Devonshires similar to our camera-weilding parents and grandparents, snapping photos of their teenagers out of love, blind to any awkwardness. When Howard was commissioned with these portraits, by either the Devonshires, or Lady Spencer, the children had already endured a two-year absence of their mother, after she was exiled to the continent by their father upon discovering her <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/devonshire-progeny-eliza-courtney.html">pregnant</a> with Earl Grey's child. It may be safe to say the separation of family members influenced commissioning such portraits.<br />
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If you would like to see these portraits, they are on display in <a href="http://spencerofalthorp.com/" target="_blank">Althorp House</a>, amongst other lovely family pictures of Georgiana and her Spencer siblings as children. However, if you can't make it to the glorious home, Althorp's website now has an amazing <a href="http://spencerofalthorp.com/a-home/explore/" target="_blank">virtual tour</a>.<br />
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<i>T</i>he Lady Lever Gallery in Liverpool has commissioned a video detailing how well-to-do women dressed in the eighteenth century. The seven-minute long <a href="http://www.periodcostume.co.uk/getting-dressed-in-the-18th-century/" target="_blank">video</a> produced by Pauline Loven and made by Crow's Eye Productions leaves no one pondering why getting dressed (or undressed) required the help of another person. To think, it only shows dressing, and not even other daily rituals such as styling hair or cosmetics; it makes me feel much better about how long it takes me to get ready in the morning!<br />
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<br />Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com66tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-70781191751250579122017-07-28T12:24:00.000-04:002017-07-28T12:24:11.188-04:00Sue Williams A’Court<i>T</i>his blog is guilty of regularly featuring glorious artwork from long-dead artists, but sometimes, just sometimes, it ventures into the land of the living [artist].<br />
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<a href="https://www.suewilliamsacourt.com/" target="_blank">Sue Williams A'Court </a>for example, is an artist whose work is very much inspired by those from the eighteenth century. Her paintings are reminiscent of Gainsborough landscape prints and I am particularly reminded of them when I look at A'Court's pastoral trees. Her most recent series blends famous portraits with natural formations. In the spirit of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the sixteenth-century painter who formed heads out of vegetables, A'Court transforms tufts of Arcadian landscape into imagery reminiscent of famous portraits. See if you can pick out the portraits from these works.<br />
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<a href="https://www.suewilliamsacourt.com/escape-from-eden" target="_blank">The Escape fro Eden series</a> will be exhibited at START Saatchi Gallery, London, 14-17th of September. Her work is currently on view at <a href="https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/artsales/sue-williams-a-court" target="_blank">'Only Connect' Curated by Prof. David Remfry RA Royal Academy The Keepers House</a>.Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-45440923475198763902017-03-02T09:41:00.002-05:002017-03-02T09:41:33.935-05:00The Decay of Gordon Castle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>G</i>ordon Castle, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Gordon in northern (and rather remote Scotland) was considered to be the largest building of Scotland in the eighteenth century. Dating back to the 14th century, the castle grew, and grew, and grew. The home-loving Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon, husband to <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Jane%20Duchess%20of%20Gordon" target="_blank">Jane, Duchess of Gordon</a>, added to the baronial home considerably until Gordon Castle was more of a Scottish Versailles. However, after his son died without an heir, transferring the Dukedom to the Duke of Richmond (who was quite happily settled in his own massive mansion, Goodwood) the castle gradually fell into disrepair. Leaky roofs forced much of these eighteenth-century additions to be demolished after which the once-grand Castle was all but forgotten. Luckily, after the second World War Lieutenant General Sir George Gordon Lennox, grandson of the 7<sup>th</sup> Duke of Richmond, took an interest in his ancestral home and began the restoration process which has continued into today. Gordon Castle, as it exists now, is only 1/8th of what existed in Jane, Duchess of Gordon's day. A wing, is now the central house, and the castle's formidable tower remains standing. <a href="http://www.gordoncastle.co.uk/" target="_blank">The castle</a> has been transformed into a hotel (and one that makes gin!) so it is once again open to visitors from afar. <br />
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<i>I</i>t's no secret that I'm a fan of RuPaul's Drag race ever since it graced my television...however many seasons ago. The current season, for those who don't religiously watch, is their second All-Star Season, which means there's some quality queens competing to snatch that crown. The last episode may as well have said 'To Heather, Love, Ru' because the queens were all assigned to be 'queens from herstory', with the legend, Detox, impersonating Marie Antoinette and Southern belle extraordinaire, Ginger Minj, getting assigned with Catherine the Great.<br />
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Ironically, both queens performed to songs concerning the great myths that are attached to them: Marie Antoinette saying 'Let them eat cake' and Catherine the Great's erm...great love for horses. But it's all in good fun, and that's exactly what this episode was FUN. <br />
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<i>T</i>hose of you who read this blog when Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith's <i>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</i> first arrived in books stores, spawning a series of 'mash-ups' such as <i>Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters</i>, <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/book-review-pride-and-prejudice-and.html" target="_blank">may recall my delight in the book</a>. After numerous casting rumours and mishaps the film version finally arrived nearly 7 years (<i>goodness!</i>) later and I was eagerly looking forward to seeing it. <i>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies </i>the book was clever, witty, and funny. <i>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies </i>the film was not. <br />
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I suppose what I liked the most about the book was that it took a genteel saga of mistaken first impressions and sprinkled zombies into it. The plot line remained the same, there was just, let's say, some further hurtles to get in the way of Lizzie bennet and Mr Darcy's love. Those hurtles happened to be a zombie infestation which forced Regency Britons to be very skilled in martial arts whilst still following the rhetoric of etiquette. The film, decided this plot line was too familiar and perhaps wasn't enough, and like the horrible, <i>Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters</i> tried to overcompensate by adding new plot lines that failed miserably. But there's a reason that we still read Austen's books 200 years later: that plot works! You can jazz it up with some zombies lusting for brains, but don't confuse it with extra plot lines. Sometimes this came off as downright sloppy: for example, Wickham shows up to the Netherfield Ball just to tell Lizzie he isn't afraid of Darcy, and then he doesn't feature again in that scene, leaving me going 'why? what?'<br />
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Perhaps the greatest offense was in Sam Riley's role as Darcy - admittedly, big boots to fill; even Colin Firth said that when he got the part for the 1995 miniseries his brother questioned his ability to be sexy enough for the role. Riley tackles the challenge by speaking in a husky Christen Bale Batman voice which was hilarious at first and then sad for the remaining hour and 45 minutes. There also seemed to be more of a focus on Mr Darcy - excuse me - COLONEL Darcy, as he kept insisting in the film, as a terminator of zombies than the protagonist, the plucky (and rather angry) Lizzie Bennet (Lily James). My feminist alarm bells really went off though during the confrontation between Lizzie and Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Lena Headley). Grahame-Smith extended this verbal garden confrontation in the book to an all-out battle royale, with the two gift sword-women fighting each other for honour. Although the film tells you Lady C is the most formidable foe, you never actually see her in action. She has a male crony fight Lizzie instead - so disappointing. <br />
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The only redeeming quality I felt the film had was Matt Smith as <strike>Mr</strike> Parson Collins. He provided some much needed comic relief but alas, it wasn't enough to save this flaming zombie limb of a movie. Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-48765877354041471412015-12-10T06:19:00.000-05:002015-12-10T06:19:14.585-05:00Design your own Coiffure<i>H</i>ave a good chunk of time on your hands? No? Well you may find yourself going to this link anyway. The V&A have developed a new <strike>distraction </strike>game in which you can design your own eighteenth-century wig. You've been warned.<br />
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Enjoy! <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/designawig/" target="_blank">Design a Wig</a>Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-30813633629577769952015-07-14T05:39:00.000-04:002015-07-14T05:39:42.595-04:00A Walk through 18th Century Paris<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="La musicologue Mylène Pardoen a reconstitué l'ambiance sonore du quartier du Grand Châtelet à Paris, au XVIIIe siècle."><i>M</i>usicologist Mylène Pardoen has brought us back in time with what she thinks the Grand Châtelet district of Paris sounded like. We forget how much of our environment and memories consists of sounds and that is perhaps why few letters from the period document them. The video above (start around the 2 minute mark) seeks to transport the viewer into Paris, with a 3D reconstruction of what it would have looked and sounded like. <i>Sigh, c'est merveilleux</i>.</span></span>Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-83434290927811406892015-07-02T06:33:00.001-04:002015-07-02T06:33:10.031-04:00'The Fashionable Bosom'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I</i>'m not sure which I like more: the title of this print (<i>A Nest for Puppies or the Fashionable Bosom</i>) or its content. Either way it's in my favourite file along with <i><a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/favorites.html" target="_blank">The breeches in the Fiera Maschereta</a>.</i></div>
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The 1786 print critiques women's frivolous love of cute little lap dogs and <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/ladies-fashion-of-1780s.html" target="_blank">expanding bustlines</a>. Why not combine the two?</div>
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<br />Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-19907028155620396532014-12-23T18:50:00.002-05:002014-12-23T18:50:59.592-05:00A Royal Joke<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>P</i>oor <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.com/search/label/Maria%20Fitzherbert" target="_blank">Mrs Fitzherbert</a>. Aside from the pain of <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.com/2011/04/tart-weddings-maria-and-george-prince.html" target="_blank">being attached</a> to the Prince of Wales, the unfortunate woman also seemed to suffer from a deficiency in brains by most accounts...which is likely how she got stuck with the prince to begin with.<br />
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Even though the Prince refused to socialise with people who refused to invite his illegal wife to their events, he and his family weren't entirely kind to Maria Fitzherbert Hanover. Court gossip, Lady Mary Coke's letter tellsof one such occasion that left Maria publicly mortified. While taking a walk with some of her friends and her husband in Windsor, enjoying the fresh air by the water's edge. The Duke of Cumberland (the prince's uncle) approached Maria, and making polite conversation, asked her if she could swim. When she responded that she 'thought she could,' he swiftly pushed her into the water. Being that this was 1789, you can only imagine the layers upon layers of soaking wet muslin and delicate little shoes that were ruined in this display of 'humour.' While poor Maria cried, the Duchess of Cumberland (and presumably, her <i>hilarious</i> husband) burst into laughter. Mrs Fitzherbert wasn't injured, but I am sure her ego surely was. Lady Mary Coke seemed to have little sympathy for her story's subject either, stating the whole thing was brought about 'by the company she is so desirous of keeping.'Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-54245194956398723502014-11-30T00:00:00.000-05:002014-11-30T00:00:05.275-05:00Bookspotting: Jane Austen's First Love, Blog Tour and Giveaway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I</i> just want to direct the novel-consuming readers out there to the attention of a new Jane Austen inspired novel that may be of interest: Syrie James’ latest book, <i>Jane Austen’s First Love.</i> Little is known about Austen's love-interest, Edward Taylor, who may have inspired some of her admired male protagonists, however James has unearthed some new information about him in the process of writing her book. From the publishers:<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">In the summer of
1791, fifteen-year-old Miss Jane Austen is determined to accomplish three
things: to do something useful, write something worthy, and fall madly in love.
While visiting at Goodnestone Park in Kent for a month of festivities in
honor of her brother's engagement to Miss Elizabeth Bridges,
Jane meets the boy-next-door—the wealthy, worldly, and devilishly handsome
Edward Taylor, heir to Bifrons Park, and hopefully her heart! Like many of
Jane’s future heroes and heroines, she soon realizes that there
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and marriage, one of them personified by her beautiful and sweet tempered
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Unsure of her own budding romance, but confident
in her powers of observation, Jane distracts herself by attempting to maneuver
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The book has been receiving great reviews and is currently making the rounds on its blog tour. There is also an <a href="http://www.syriejames.com/LatestNewsPageNEW.php" target="_blank">amazing giveaway</a> where you can get all sorts of Austen prizes just by leaving a comment here or on <a href="http://www.syriejames.com/LatestNewsPageNEW.php" target="_blank">other stops along the tour</a>. </span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is June 1791, and Jane Austen is at Goodnestone Park in Kent visiting
the Bridges family. Jane, age fifteen, is not yet “out,” but her mother has
allowed her to attend her first ball that evening to celebrate her brother’s
engagement to Elizabeth Bridges. Jane is all dressed in her best gown and
filled with excitement, her only regret that her mother will not allow her to
powder her hair, as her older sister Cassandra and the preponderance of the
company is expected to do.</span></i></div>
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<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As I emerged into the passage, Louisa and Harriot
appeared, attired in their new gowns, their hair elegantly styled with
supplementary hair pieces, and fully powdered in bluish gray—the very image of
all the fashionable ladies of the age whom I had so long admired.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I had never seen girls so young attired in such a
manner except in old paintings, and the picture they presented was very
striking. The young girls skipped up to me.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Do not we look magnificent?” cried Harriot, beaming,
as she paused to twirl in all her finery.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“You both look fit to be presented to the queen,”
replied I sincerely, to which the girls broke out into giggles and ran off.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I stood still for half a minute, steeped in misery,
listening to the laughter from behind the closed doors along the passage,
wherein the other young ladies were dressing. Lining the corridor were various
ancestral pictures of regal men and ladies, all of them wearing wigs or with powdered
hair. I yearned with all my heart to look just like them. My melancholy and
despair grew to such a height, that I could no longer bear it. Tears started in
my eyes; and, sobbing, I ran down the hall to the bedroom which I knew to be
newly occupied by my mother. I rapped urgently on the door, identifying myself;
she bid me to come in.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“What is the matter, Jane?” exclaimed my mother from
the chair where she was reading. She was fully dressed in her best russet gown
and white fichu, her curly hair already powdered beneath her white cap. “What
do these tears signify?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Oh! Mamma! You cannot mean to humiliate me like
this!” I flew to her side and knelt before her, taking one of her hands in
mine, as my tears flowed.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She set down her book. “How have I humiliated you?”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In between sobs, I told her about Louisa and Harriot.
My mother looked surprised.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“I have wanted this for such a long time, Mamma. It is
my only opportunity to feel what it is to be truly grown-up. Will not you
consider and relent? Otherwise, I am to be the only person at the ball to-night
with natural hair! I will be laughed at!”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My mother was silent for a moment; then she patted my
back distractedly. “Well, well, we cannot have <span class="ITAL">that</span>,
can we? We are not at Steventon now. If those are the rules of <span class="ITAL">this</span> house—if little Harriot Bridges, at age ten, is to have
powdered hair—well!”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I glanced up at her, hope rising. “Do you mean—”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“I have been here but a few hours, Jane, but already I
have sized up Lady Bridges. That woman has her nose so high up in the air, it
is a wonder she can take a step without falling on her face! We cannot have <span class="ITAL">her</span> looking down on us! Why, her daughters are all so
beautiful and accomplished, nobody else’s daughters can hope to hold a candle
to <span class="ITAL">them! </span>Even her strawberries are the best in the
land, or so <span class="ITAL">she</span> claims, and her precious roses won a
prize at some fair or other; well! My own roses are equally as fine, I assure
you, for all that they have not been judged and won ribbons! You are a young
lady now, Jane! Even if you are not yet <span class="ITAL">out</span>, we cannot
have Lady Bridges or any of her ilk looking at you like a child!”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Oh! Thank you, Mamma!” I threw my arms around her, so
filled with relief and happiness that I thought I might burst.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“There, there, Jane,” said my mother, “you will ruin
my <span class="ITAL">ensemble. </span>Now dry your tears, and go get your hair
powdered. Mind you, this indulgence will apply this one night only.”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“I understand.”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“One thing further: remember what I said, you are not
to dance to-night with any strange men, only your brothers or your cousins.”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Only brothers and cousins?” cried I, distressed once
again. “But Mamma, there are but a handful of young men who meet that
description! I have been here some days already. I have become good friends
with some of the Bridgeses’s friends, and in particular with their cousin,
Edward Taylor. He is a remarkable young man, Mamma. I would give anything to
dance with him.”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Edward Taylor?” She pursed her lips. “Is he the young
man just come back from abroad, who is heir to that big house down the road,
what is it called?”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Bifrons. Yes. That is he.”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Well, Lady Bridges has her cap in a twist about <span class="ITAL">that</span> young gentleman; she seems to perceive anyone who is
musical, well-educated, or well-travelled as a threat to her own precious
progeny. Let us give her something else to fret about, Jane! He is, in any
case, soon to be our cousin through marriage, is not he? You have my
permission, my dear; you may dance with him—and I suppose with anyone else you
call a <span class="ITAL">friend.</span> But I still say: no strangers.”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Thank you!” cried I again, kissing her cheek with
relief; and I flew from the chamber.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I returned to my own room, where the scent of lavender
hung heavy in the air, and I found that my sister had been transformed into a
regal beauty.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“You look stunning,” cried I, and without pausing
added, “and you will never guess what has happened! Mamma has just given her
consent for me to powder my hair! And to dance with any friends I like!”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Has she?” replied Cassandra. “I am happy for you,
Jane.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Well done, miss,” said Sally, beaming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I resumed my seat at the dressing-table, my heart
drumming with anticipation, as Sally covered my shoulders and upper body with a
protective drape; she then applied pomatum to my hair, and liberally added the
fragrant, bluish gray starch with a puff. Very quickly, powder filled the air
and got up my nose and into my mouth, causing me to choke and sneeze. When she
had finished and removed the drape, I was so enveloped by the flowery aroma, I
felt slightly ill.</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cassandra, who had been watching from a chair by the
hearth, said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“There, you have achieved your goal. Are you content?”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“I am not sure.” Coughing and brushing off the excess
powder from my gown, I added, “I did not realise it was such a messy business.”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“I tried to tell you.” She smiled. “You look very
elegant, Jane.”</span></div>
<div class="04BodyText" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Do I?” Turning and glancing in the mirror again, I
viewed my reflection with a start. “I hope so. For in truth, I do not recognise
myself.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425271358/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0425271358&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwsyriejames-20" target="_blank">Jane Austen's First Love</a> </i>is out now where all good books are sold. </span>Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com91tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-21656506633066554672014-07-25T07:17:00.002-04:002014-07-25T07:17:42.661-04:00Tart of the Week: Eglantine, Lady Wallace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>L</i>ike many little sisters of celebrated big sisters, Lady Wallace was stuck in the shadow of her elder sister, <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Jane%20Duchess%20of%20Gordon" target="_blank">Jane, Duchess of Gordon</a>. However, just like the <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Henrietta%20%22Harriet%22%20Countess%20of%20Bessborough" target="_blank">Harriet</a> to Jane's Georgiana, Eglantine, or Betty as she was known, proved to be just as interesting of a character. <br />
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Betty and her sisters were brought up by their mother, Lady Maxwell in a tenement in Edinburgh. The girls were known to be a bit wild (especially for daughters of a baronet) and rode pigs down the street with all the local children (hence the term 'piggy-back rides'). While Jane seemed to have curtailed the majority of her wild personality as she successful moved up the social ranks, Betty never seemed to lose her fire. She married Thomas Dunlop in 1770 who was made the 5th Baronet of Wallace shortly afterward. The marriage only lasted eight years; the couple legally separated on the grounds of Thomas's cruelty. However, I wouldn't be too surprised if Betty didn't give back as good as she got. Around this time she was summoned before a magistrate to answer for assaulting a female companion. She had to answer the same charges in 1793 when she assaulted a servant. Lady Wallace was a <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CC8QtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4r7wHMg5Yjg&ei=qzTSU7zYLqSg7Ab4yoDwAg&usg=AFQjCNFc9zTuxQDCzmH6_54C3uDozM4GCA&sig2=x68Z9Kq5twVlMBHj8RWJYw&bvm=bv.71667212,d.ZGU" target="_blank">honey badger</a>.<br />
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In 1793 she snuck into the House of Commons to watch a debate. Since women were forbidden from the public gallery Betty disguised herself in mens' clothing and managed to see much of the debate before she was discovered and consequentially kicked out. After her separation, she moved to London and took up the playwrights' pen. Three of her plays seemed fairly well-received in the late 1780s, with Sarah Siddons even taking up one of the roles. Her 1795 play, <i>The Whim: A Comedy</i>, however was banned by the licenser for an unknown reason. One can only hope it was because it was too racy. <br />
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Betty had a few close calls in her adventurous life. In 1789 she decided to travel to France to take the spa waters for her health, not thinking, perhaps this wasn't the best time to do so. After speaking her mind about the current political situation to, <i>erm</i>, the wrong people, she was arrested and accused of espionage - a crazy accusation considering Betty would have been the worst spy ever. She luckily managed to escape the situation with her head intact. <br />
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Not deterred by the continent after that experience, Lady Wallace seems to have spent the remainder of her life traveling in London through Europe. She died in Munich in 1803. Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-22091654436317569352014-07-04T04:56:00.003-04:002014-07-04T04:56:58.922-04:00Movie Review: Belle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I</i> feel as though I am possibly the last person to see <i>Belle</i> so this review is late in coming. Luckily it just came to my local theatre recently so I was finally able to see it.<br />
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In summary, <i>Belle</i> is based on the true story of Dido Belle Lindsay, the mixed-race daughter of the Navy officer, John Lindsay. The film opens with Lindsay, a melodramatic <a href="http://grubstreetlodger.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/review-man-of-feeling-henry-mackenzie.html" target="_blank">man of feeling</a> 'rescuing' Dido (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) from a slum and dropping her off at his uncle's (Tom Wilkinson) house after being very, very preachy about family duty. She is thus raised with her sister-cousin, and fellow-unwanted daughter, Elizabeth Murray (Sarah Gadon). The film centres around issues of race, class, and privilege. The plot thickens when Dido's father (who she never met again) dies, leaving her an heiress. Meanwhile her sister-cousin must find a husband or risk being penniless. Moral of the story: it sucks to be an elite, eighteenth-century woman.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My love interest: that green gown</td></tr>
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I enjoyed the movie: it was a good story, full of pretty, and the historical inaccuracies were at a minimum. However the writing was very black and white, which left me wanting more nuance. So many things were explained blatantly, as if it was in a school report. This meant there was very little character development. Dido and Elizabeth's close relationship was established through a shot of them laughing together and then substantiated by a lot of conversation about how close they were; yet it was rarely felt (from a viewer's point of view). Dido's close relationship with her adoptive parents was much in the same way. The love story was very 'meh,' possibly because her love interest (Sam Reid) was in the same ilk as Dido's father, a man of feeling. If you haven't gathered already, that meant I was not in love <br />
<br />with him either. Boyfriend needed to put a little more effort into his hair as well. There was also an overarching issue of race vs illegitimacy. Throughout the film Dido is told her race has put her in an inferior state of limbo, however many of the social issues she faces realistically stem from her illegitimacy. <br />
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The acting was great from the more senior members of the cast. I found Reid's performance melodramatic and although Mbatha-Raw was very talented, she definitely studies under the school of Kiera historical acting. Oh and did I mention that the baddy in the film was played by Malfoy? I kept waiting for him to spit 'Potter!' at Dido. Lord Malfoy's brother was also the spitting image of <a href="http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/hes-not-such-bad-guy.html" target="_blank">Batoni's portrait</a> of the Duke of Devonshire.<br />
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Belle was a lovely film in which you could easily lose yourself however it left me wanting more in terms of the writing. What did everyone else thing?<br />
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For those who have already seen it you may be interested in this article, <a href="http://blog.english-heritage.org.uk/belle-happened-dido-film-ended/" target="_blank">What Happened to Dido After the Film Ended?</a>Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-69302653666768903622014-07-01T06:49:00.000-04:002014-07-01T06:49:08.095-04:00Gossip on Bloglovin<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i>S</i>orry for my horrible blogging absence! There has been a lot going on behind the blog recently including blog upgrades (coming soon), a potential academic publication in the works, and a pesky personal life getting in the way. In the meantime I've just entered 2014 and have registered with Bloglovin which is what all the hip kids are doing nowadays so when I finally get my posts going again, you will instantly know! In the meantime I still manage to update in 140 characters or less on <a href="https://twitter.com/GeorgianaGossip" target="_blank">twitter</a>. <br />
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Check out the whole series of photos <a href="http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-photography/lindsey-wixson-karl-lagerfeld-couture-photo-shoot-0414?src=spr_FBPAGE&spr_id=1447_50291220#slide-1" target="_blank">here</a>.Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-75717912413124732082014-03-12T12:32:00.002-04:002014-03-12T12:32:54.578-04:00Quotables (Insults Edition)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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'You little, insignificant, good-for-nothing, upstart, pert, chattering puppy!'</blockquote>
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'Ly. Eliz. [<a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CEkQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgeorgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Ftart-of-week-bess-foster.html&ei=HQ4fU4jtBLGM7Aai7oHQAg&usg=AFQjCNFtjAAp4WdLoHvQ-UfeVoFX-dir-A&sig2=bzSp9avJf2zZQUqi-x_S6Q&bvm=bv.62788935,d.ZGU" target="_blank">Bess</a>] came, the first time I have seen her since her marriage with [the] Duke of Devonshire; I could not utter a congratulation upon the occasion.'</blockquote>
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These two dashing gents are Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser of 2CELLOS and in their video for AC/DC's “Thunderstruck” they chose the austere and polite setting of an eighteenth-century theatre.<br />
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I quite like it, although I think they could do with a nice powder wig (a la Amadeus?) or at least a regency haircut. Oh wait, not to mention their actual musical prowess is AMAZING. Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-5181423573213379472014-01-21T06:15:00.002-05:002014-01-21T06:18:21.641-05:00Upcoming Exhibition - Georgians: 18th-Century Dress for Polite Society<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>B</i>ath's <a href="http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fashion Museum</a> has <a href="http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/exhibitions/future_displays/georgian_fashion.aspx" target="_blank">announced</a> their exhibition for this year and luckily for us it's one in which they have, once again, dusted off their wonderful Georgian dress collection that has been hiding behind closed doors, to give it the proper attention it deserves.* <i>Georgians: 18th-Century Dress for Polite Society</i> opens this Saturday and knowing this collection, it is sure to be a gorgeous display of eighteenth-century finery.<br />
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All we need now is an excuse to get to Bath! I'm devising mine right now.<br />
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*Fangirls and boys pressed up against the glass drooling over it.Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-75855726118405610932014-01-06T08:54:00.002-05:002014-01-06T08:54:56.848-05:00Belle, the story of Dido Belle Lindsay<i>M</i>any of you may recognize this famous portrait once thought to be by Zoffany of the cousins and bffs, Dido Belle and Elizabeth Lindsay -<br />
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<i>I </i>recently had the pleasure of seeing High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson now on display at the Queen's Gallery, Holyroodhouse which explores the satirical prints of one of our favourite satirists. My review can be seen as the BSECS Criticks' page <a href="http://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks/ReviewDetails.aspx?id=168&type=2" target="_blank">here</a>. There is also <a href="http://www.amazon.com/High-Spirits-Kate-Heard/dp/1905686765/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1387472638&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=high+spirits+thomas+rowlandson" target="_blank">an accompanying catalogue</a> (which is quite big) for those who will miss the exhibition. In short, the exhibition is packed with some of Rowlandson's most well-known prints as well as some rarer pieces. There is a section dedicated to the Westminster Election of 1784 so there are quite a few prints depicting the Duchess of Devonshire and they're all in pristine condition. So if you can make it to this exhibition, be it in Edinburgh or London, I would recommend it!Heather Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03544318718074061879noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775910475089264257.post-1683506531329330072013-12-18T13:04:00.000-05:002013-12-18T13:04:20.961-05:00Spinets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>T</i>is the season for Christmas music to be on <i>ad nauseum</i>. One song that I keep hearing recently is <i>We Need a Little Christmas</i> which contains a line about singing carols at the spinet. So in the spirit of the season let's look at the beauty that is this lesser-known musical instrument. <br />
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Spinets are the harpsichord's less popular sister...well in terms of notoriety at least. They sound just like a harpsichord but the difference lies in that, unlike their big sister, they only have one set of strings so are a little more simple (check out this video of my colleague <a href="http://instagram.com/p/dxCTuIi_Qy/" target="_blank">playing a harpsichord</a> if you're not quite sure what I mean). Spinets are also smaller and tend to be 'bentside,' meaning they are a bit triangular and fit conveniently against a wall. They are basically the basically the upright piano to the harpsichord's grand. Therefore, if you weren't raking in Mr Darcy's income, you may have still been able to afford a spinet so as your daughters could tick off 'music' on their accomplished young lady checklist. Despite being slightly more middle-class (if you will) spinet craftsmen still created some glorious pieces; so without further ado, let's fill our eyes with them.<br />
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