The Gentleman's Daughter (79 page)
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Authors: Amanda Vickery
J. Raven, ‘English Popular Literature and the Image of Business, 1760–90’ (Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge University, 1985)
J. Smail, ‘From the Middling to the Middle: Class Formation in Halifax, Yorkshire in the century before the Industrial Revolution’ (Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, 1988)
A. J. Vickery, ‘Women of the Local Elite in Lancashire, 1750–
c.
1825’ (Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1991)
W. Weber, ‘Opera and Nobility in Eighteenth-Century London and Paris’ (work in progress)
S. Whayman, ‘Sociability and Power: The World of the Verney's, 1660–1720’ (Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University, 1993)
R. G. Wilson, ‘Towards an Economic History of Country House Building in the Eighteenth Century’ (seminar paper, Eighteenth Century Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London University, October 1988)
1 Colne Cloth (or Piece) Hall. Photograph courtesy of the Pendle Heritage Centre, Barrowford.
2 Emmott Hall. Photograph courtesy of the Pendle Heritage Centre, Barrowford.
3 Arthur Devis,
The Parker Conversation Piece
, 1757. Private collection. Photograph courtesy of Spink–Leger Pictures.
4 Browsholme Hall, near Clitheroe, 1808. Private collection.
5 Alkincoats Hall in winter, 1896. Private collection
6 Pasture House, 1977. Photograph courtesy of the Pendle Heritage Centre, Barrowford.
7 Carr Hall. Photograph courtesy of the Pendle Heritage Centre, Barrowford.
8 Standen Hall, Clitheroe. Photograph courtesy of Mr John Aspinall Esq. of Standen.
9 ‘The Assignation’, from the
Lady's Magazine
(1772). Private collection.
10 ‘The Choice of a Husband’,
c.
1825. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
11 ‘The Choice of a Wife’,
c.
1825. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
12 John Collett, ‘Modern Love: Courtship’, 1782. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
13 John Collett, ‘Modern Love: The Elopement’, 1782. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
14 John Collett, ‘Modern Love: The Honeymoon’, 1782. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
15 John Collett, ‘Modern Love: Discordant Matrimony’, 1782. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
16 Thorp Arch Hall, Wharfedale. Photograph courtesy of the West Yorkshire Archaeology Service.
17 Philip Mercier,
William Gossip of Thorp Arch
, 1745. Private collection.
18 Philip Mercier,
Anne Gossip of Thorp arch
, 1745. Private collection.
19 ‘Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales & her Infant daughter, attended by Lady Chomondely’, 1797. Source unknown. Private collection.
20 ‘Morning Dress’, from
Ackermann's Repositary of Arts
(1810). Private collection.
21 ‘Goodnight’, 1808. Source unknown. Private collection.
22 Title-page from Elizabeth Shackleton's Pocket Diary, 1776, DDB/81/29. Photograph courtesy of the Lancashire County Record Office.
23 ‘The Haberdasher Dandy’, 1818. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
24 Trade card of Phillips Garden, St Paul's Churchyard, London. Heal Collection, British Museum.
25 Trade card of Benjamin Cole. Heal Collection, British Museum.
26 ‘The Vis a Vis Bisected or the Ladies Coop’, [M. Darly], 1776. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
27 ‘The Lady's Disaster’, 1746. Private collection.
28 ‘A lady in the Dress of the Year 1746’, from Elizabeth Parker/Shackleton's Pocket Diary, L.R.O., DDB/81/4. Photograph courtesy of the Lancashire County Record Office.
29 ‘A Lady in the Dress of the Year 1772’, and ‘Twelve of the genteelest Head-dresses of 1772’, from Elizabeth Shackleton's Pocket Diary, L.R.O., DB/81/20. Photograph courtesy of the Lancashire County Record Office.
30 ‘Ladies of Quality in the Most Fashionable Headresses’, from Elizabeth Shackleton's Pocket Diary, 1780. Photograph courtesy of the Lancashire County Record Office.
31 ‘A lady in the full Dress of the Year 1775’, Frontispiece to Elizabeth Shackleton's Pocket Diary, DDB/81/29. Photograph courtesy of the Lancashire County Record Office.
32 ‘Ten Fashionable Head-dresses of 1786’, from the
Ladies' Own Memorandum Book
(1787). Private collection.
33 ‘The Rage or Shepherds I have lost my waist’, 1794. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
34 Triptych, ‘Lady Torrington’, ‘Lady Archer’ and ‘Lady Waldegrave’, in Riding Dress, Full Dress and Undress,
c.
1777. Source unknown. Private collection.
35 ‘Ladies in the Dress of 1786’ from the
Ladies' Own Memorandum Book
(1787). Private collection.
36 ‘Fashionable Dresses’, from
Carnan's Ladies Complete Pocket Book for 1802
. Private collection.
37 ‘Fashionable Dress’ and ‘Fashionable Dresses’, from
Carnan's Ladies Complete Pocket Book for 1808
. Private collection.
38 A woman demonstrating the gesture ‘To
GIVE
or
RECEIVE
’, from F. Nivelon,
The Rudiments of Genteel Behaviour
:
An Introduction to the Method of attaining a graceful Attitude, an agreeable Motion, an easy Air and a genteel behaviour
(1937). Photograph by kind permission of the Huntington Library, Pasadena, California.
39 A man demonstrating ‘The Complement
RETIRING
’ from F. Nivelon,
The Rudiments of Genteel Behaviour: An Introduction to the Method of attaining a graceful Attitude, an agreeable Motion, an easy Air and a genteel behaviour
(1737). Photograph by kind permission of the Huntington Library, Pasadena, California.
40 H. Gravelot, untitled lady, 1744. Private collection.
41 H. Gravelot, untitled gentleman, 1744. Private collection.
42 Detail from plate 55.
43 ‘View of the Ball at St James's on the Celebration of Her Majesty's Birth Night February 9 1786’, from the
New Lady's Magazine
. Private collection.
44 ‘Theatrical Pleasures, Crowding to the Pit’, 1821. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
45 ‘Theatrical Pleasures, Contending for a Seat’, 1821. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
46 Edward Finden after John Brown(e), ‘York Music Festival’, 1824. Photograph courtesy of York City Art Gallery.
47 William Lindley, ‘A Perspective View of the Inside of the Grand Assembly Room in Blake Street’, 1759. Photograph courtesy of York City Art Gallery.
48 Emily Brookes,
Cuerdon Masquerade
, 1822. Photograph courtesy of Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston.
49 ‘A General Prospect of Vauxhall Gardens’, 1751. Private collection.
50 ‘View of the Grand South Walk in Vauxhall Gardens’, 1751. Private collection.
51 ‘A View of the Company in Vauxhall Gardens’, 1779, from
Carnan & Newbury's Pocket Book
. Private collection.
52 ‘A View of the Company at the Pantheon, Oxford St’, 1779, from
Carnan & Newbury's Pocket Book
. Private collection.
53 ‘A View in Kensington Gardens During the Performance of the Military Band’, from
Poole's Cabinet of Fashion and Repositary of Literature
(1827). Private collection.
54 Ladies admiring potted plants, from the untitled frontispiece to
Marshall's Ladies Fashionable Repository
(1827). Private collection.
55 Charles Grignon after Nathan Drake, ‘Prospect of a Noble Terras Walk’, York
c.
1756. Photograph courtesy of York City Art Gallery.
56 An untitled illustration of two ladies in a phaeton, from
Heideloff's Gallery of Fashion
(1794). Private collection.
57 George Woodward, ‘A Nottingham Card Party’, 1797. Photograph courtesy of the City of Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery.
58 George Woodward, ‘A Polite Congregation’, 1797. Photograph courtesy of the City of Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery.
59 Moses Griffiths,
Harrowgate Wells
, 1772. Photograph courtesy of Harrogate Museum and Art Gallery.
60 John Raphael Smith,
Chalybeate Well
, 1796. Photograph courtesy of Harrogate Museums and Art Gallery.
61 ‘A Trip To Scarborough
A.D.
1783’. Private collection.
62 James Northcote, R.A.,
Grouse-shooting in the Forest of Bowland
, 1802. Private collection.
63 John Wootton,
John Warde and his Family
, 1735. Photograph by kind permission of Mr and Mrs John Warde of Squerries.
64 ‘A Foxhunting Breakfast’, 1777. Photograph courtesy of the British Museum.
65 The untitled frontispiece to the
Lady's Magazine
, vol. 11 (1780). Private collection.
66 ‘The Patriotic Parting’, from the
Lady's Magazine
, vol. 13 (1782). Private collection.
Note:
Page references in
italics
refer to illustrations and their captions. Page numbers in
bold
type indicate persons listed in the Biographical Index (Appendix 2).
abortion
(i)
acting
see
theatre; theatricals, private
Addison, Elizabeth
(i)
and child care
(i)
and pregnancy and childbirth
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Addison, Joseph
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
adoption
(i)
advice literature
and courtship
(i)
and household management
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
and marriage
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
and motherhood
(i)
age
and consumption
(i)
and fashion
(i)
and sociability
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Aikin, J.
(i)
Ainsworth, Alice
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
alehouse
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Alkincoats Hall, Colne
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
and family history
(i)
furnishing
(i)
and hospitality
(i)
and household management
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
and servants
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
and sociability
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
America
and female consumption
(i)
,
(ii)
American War of Independence
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Amherst, Elizabeth
(i)
Andrew, Donna
(i)
Anglicanism
church-going
(i)
distaste for enthusiasm
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
and politeness
(i)
response to illness and death
(i)
,
(ii)
see also
clerics
annulments
(i)
anti-slavery societies
(i)
apprenticeships
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
and Parker sons
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
aristocrats
criticisms of
(i)
and family size
(i)
and household management
(i)
,
(ii)
and marriage
(i)
as social category
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
as trend-setters
(i)
and trials
(i)
see also
gentry
Aspinall, Helen
(i)
Aspinall, James
(i)
Aspinall, John
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
and Clitheroe election of 1781
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
and public life
(i)
Aspinall, John (younger)
(i)
Aspinall, N.
(i)
assemblies
and balls
(i)
court
(i)
and fashion
(i)
provincial
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
