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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: Bertha Pappenheim, als Gluckel of Hameln (1647-1719)
Current reading: Crabbe's tales; Christine Pevitt Algrant, Madame de Pompadour; Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello; David Nokes's biography of Samuel Johnson. Alternative: Munro Price, The Road from Versailles
Future hopes: plays by women: a season of a favorite author: Behn, Gay and Goldsmith? Iris Origo's Life of Leopardi or other work on romantic/Italian authors
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Gluckel of Hameln
I find I'm quoted on the second page I sent a URL for! It's a review I wrote in which there's a one sentence summary of Davies' essay on Gluckel: Natalie
Posted - Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:29 pm
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Ellen Moody
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Memoirs of Bluckel of Hameln
Dear Penny and all, I've put a contemporary image of Bertha Pappenheim als Gluckel of Hameln on our groupsite page:
Posted - Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:13 pm
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Ellen Moody
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Nokes: Samuel Johnson: A life
This to just to say I made only a start last night. I was too tired to go on, but I found the book to be very readable. He begins with Johnson's Dictionary.
Posted - Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:05 pm
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Ellen Moody
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Gluckel
Ellen, I have the same copy you have. mine was bought for a college history class 32yrs ago. So it really is not new. Since it was so long ago I definitely
Posted - Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:30 am
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Penny Klein
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The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
Dear all, As if you didn't have enough to do or read, I thought I'd add (as the book just arrived) that over on WWTTA we have a couple of books going relevant
Posted - Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:12 pm
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