Books 2010: buckle your swashes
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hawkwing_lbBooks 2010: 145-146
145. Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda.
A ridiculous implausible fantasy (using the word broadly, but if this was written today it would be a genre work, I imagine), but entertaining.
nonfiction
146. Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998.
Because, of course, I really need to be reading books on the eighteenth century while supposed to be researching the third. BCE.
This is a fascinating examination of the wives and daughters of the Georgian gentry, centred on Lancaster, and focusing on the kinship networks of said women, their letters, pocketbooks, and diaries. One Elizabeth Shackleton, née Parker, first married name also Parker, occupies a fair amount of space due to the amount of detail which she left behind her.
The book's divided into seven chapters, not counting the introduction and conclusion. They each deal with aspects of the conventional gentlewoman's life and attitudes towards those aspects as revealed in letters, records, and literature, under the headings, "Gentility," "Love and Duty," "Fortitude and Resignation," "Prudent Economy," "Elegance," "Civility and Vulgarity," and "Propriety."
It's an interesting and extremely readable work, giving access to the kind of information that classicists only wish they had. *sigh* *is jealous of wealth of sources*
145. Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda.
A ridiculous implausible fantasy (using the word broadly, but if this was written today it would be a genre work, I imagine), but entertaining.
nonfiction
146. Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998.
Because, of course, I really need to be reading books on the eighteenth century while supposed to be researching the third. BCE.
This is a fascinating examination of the wives and daughters of the Georgian gentry, centred on Lancaster, and focusing on the kinship networks of said women, their letters, pocketbooks, and diaries. One Elizabeth Shackleton, née Parker, first married name also Parker, occupies a fair amount of space due to the amount of detail which she left behind her.
The book's divided into seven chapters, not counting the introduction and conclusion. They each deal with aspects of the conventional gentlewoman's life and attitudes towards those aspects as revealed in letters, records, and literature, under the headings, "Gentility," "Love and Duty," "Fortitude and Resignation," "Prudent Economy," "Elegance," "Civility and Vulgarity," and "Propriety."
It's an interesting and extremely readable work, giving access to the kind of information that classicists only wish they had. *sigh* *is jealous of wealth of sources*
