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The Marriage - Plate 5 from the depicting Tom Rakewell. Here, he marries an old woman for her fortune in Marylebone church which was well-known then for clandestine weddings. Tom is more interested in the maid than his one-eyed bride!

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2018-01-20

More gambols, this time quoting Milton: ‘Whilst Romp loving Miss is haul’d about/ With gallantry robust’

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2017-12-21

On 's blog, some background info from our new book, A Heroine.
Abduction and Rape in The Multiple Misfortunes of Charlotte Williams.
https://t.co/4r2uiO7NXw

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2017-11-28

🌼🌷 Here Lyes ye Body of Thaddeus Maccarty Aged 75 Years & 6 Months Desesed June ye 18 1705 🌷🌼#gravestone … https://t.co/fKvouqlPlN

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2017-11-25

For yr may I recommend an ECF essay or two?
Especially scintillating:
"Georgian Theatre in an Information Age: Media, Performance, Sociability," ed. Daniel O'Quinn and Gillian Russell
https://t.co/R5pHNH9Cys

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2017-11-03

Yr Sunday long read:
Mediating Richardson, an ECF special issue
ed. Louise Curran & Sören Hammerschmidt
https://t.co/4yxuyylnZ6

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2017-09-03

Wonderful engraving of 1783 - showing coal being transported down to keel boats waiting in the River Tyne

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2017-08-18