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By Elizabeth Brissey on September 15, 2020
This month’s roundup features primary sources related to fiber arts and clothing manufacture in the 18th century. From sourcing the materials for fabric dyeing and weaving to the purchase and upkeep of the finished product, textile production and circulation provides a fascinating point of entry to 18th-century studies. These works give a closer look at […]
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By Elizabeth Brissey on June 1, 2020
For this month’s roundup, 18thConnect.org is providing a sampler of materials for educators, students, and scholars. In non-fiction accounts, political and pedagogical documents, artifacts of visual culture, and more, the authors and artists collected here represent a variety of historical and contemporary voices from and about pandemics and epidemics of the 18th century. The documents […]
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By Anne Arundel on May 9, 2014
Spring semesters around the world are drawing to a close, and the endings of academic quarters will soon follow. Soon we will once again have time for frolicking — and for TypeWrighting!. To honor all students in their current fervor–and to keep their TypeWright skills from eroding […]
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By Anne Arundel on March 20, 2014
I will not speak of the weather, in hopes that we may induce Spring to stay with us for a long visit. In Honor of her latest triumph over the Polar Vortex, I present our new TypeWright Featured Text: “The Triumph of Wit,” a 1712 collection of poems by John Shirley on various miscellaneous topics. […]
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By Anne Arundel on February 20, 2014
Many thanks to user kosborn4 for completing the correction of the underlying text for the 1800 printing of Reynard the Fox! Our team is processing his copy of the corrected text, as we do for all the TypeWriters who contribute substantially to a document’s corrected text. Since the correction of the 1800 document is […]
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By Anne Arundel on January 24, 2014
Lets celebrate the new year with a text that is both old and new. I have chosen an 1800 printing (new at the time) of an age-old tale, Reynard the Fox. We have several versions of this text that stretch across the long 18th Century. The earliest version in 18thConnect, from 1662, bills itself as “newly corrected […]
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By Anne Arundel on November 13, 2013
The Indian Emperour, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, being the sequel of The Indian Queen. John Dryden 1703 printing of a play. This is the oldest TypeWright enabled version included in 18thConnect, of a play first produced in 1665, and first printed in 1667. The play went through various printings, and we […]
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By Anne Arundel on October 10, 2013
Greetings and Salutations! As I have already stated, I am fully aware that you all know 18thConnect much better than I do. Hence, I have started two new discussion threads to tap into the greater knowledge base. Find both these new discussions in the “18thConnect” sub-head in the 18thConnect Forum. As a “Noobie” […]
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By Anne Arundel on September 20, 2013
Greetings and Salutations! Please let me introduce myself, Anne Arundel Locker-Thaddeus, as the new graduate research assistant for ARC, the Advanced Research Consortium. A Texan by birth, I am a folklore scholar working on my Ph.D. in Anthropology at Texas A&M University. My areas are contemporary folklore of Mexican Americans and folkloric processes. However, my […]
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By egrumbach on July 26, 2012
This month’s TypeWright Featured Text is A trip to Paris, in July and August, 1792. By Mr. Twiss (1793). In late summer 1792, Paris became a city of revolution and violence, and the world was fascinated and horrified by the events leading up to and including the September Massacres. Mr. Twiss, the author of the featured text, […]
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