A survivor’s memoir is quoted in this account of the loss of the '74' HMS Namur, in a storm off India’s east coast of in 1749. Telling of a disaster that claimed some 500 lives, it still has the power to move. Click: https://t.co/90Sq5ku4oX

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Not By The Wayside https://t.co/EcfDzR9AqW
The Mustard Seed, a children's play about Mary Jones and her Bible. <

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There's proof middle aged women were coveted by era men for their sexual experience and ardour. Just saying.


https://t.co/nX74XhoitQ

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Amazing: the hairnet was a fashionable head-dress of Empire Style Fashion: https://t.co/BA2V8qgWY2

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William Hogarth, died in the small hours 1764 (or very late on the 25th) provided us with innumerable views of the world, including one of the best series on what it was like to vote in one of their elections

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Marie Antoinette and Her Passion for Flowers - had a passion for flowers so much that when her husband became king and gave her Petit Trianon, he did so saying, “You love flowers ... https://t.co/XtW4VFnsav

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ReadECF
"Plebeianizing the Female Soldier: Radical Liberty and /The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies/,"
by Fraser Easton
https://t.co/ERDVGfv0GT

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Please ReadECF
"Memory, Monuments, and Melancholic Genius in Margaret Cavendish's /Bell in Campo/,"
by Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker https://t.co/vbMXYEEANi

Attached pictures: two portraits of Margaret Cavendish.

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"Portrait of Celeste Coltellini, Madame Meuricoffre", circa 1790 s
Antoine-Jean Gros  (1771–1835)

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If you're looking for a weekend
may I recommend Material Fictions?
Part 2 includes
"The Glove as Fetish Object in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Culture," by Tracey Hutchings-Goetz
https://t.co/ctJEa4DzaO

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