The terrain of "Eighteenth Century Worlds" is the long 18th century (1660 to 1830), its literature, music and art, society and culture. The list is an informal seminar, a "locus amoenus" in cyberspace.

Current Picture: Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88), Landscape with Woodcutter courting a Milkmaid (1753)

Current reading being posted about: Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Charlotte Smith's novels. Anne Grant, Letters from the Mountains Winston Graham's Warleggan. Richardson's Clarissa

Upcoming: Scott, The Antiquary, Charlotte Smith's The Young Philosopher, The Banished Man, her translation of Prevost's Manon Lescaut. Sophie Cottin, Claire d'Albe and Amelie Mansfield

Postings about films set in the 18th century encouraged; e.g., the 1975-77 mini-series and 1996 Poldark Stranger from the Sea; 2008 Paramount/BBC The Duchess; 1996 BBC Emma, 2007 BBC 4 Fanny Hill ...

Future memoirs & novels: Prevost's Cleveland. Memoirs of Mrs Coghlan: Daughter of the Late Major Moncrieffe; Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Sumbel, late Mary Wells, of the Theatres-Royal, Drury Lane &c&c

Future possibilities. Susan Staves, A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789. Robert Southey, Entire Man of Letters. Thomas Dekker, The Fictions of Romantic Tourism