The History of Sandford and Merton
Author | : Thomas Day |
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Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1808 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
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Author | : Thomas Day |
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Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1808 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
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Author | : Wendy Moore |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465065732 |
Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country maid yet tough and hardy like a Spartan heroine, she would live with him in an isolated cottage, completely subservient to his whims. But after being rejected by a number of spirited young women, Day concluded that the perfect partner he envisioned simply did not exist in frivolous, fashion-obsessed Georgian society. Rather than conceding defeat and giving up his search for the woman of his dreams, however, Day set out to create her. So begins the extraordinary true story at the heart of How to Create the Perfect Wife, prize-winning historian Wendy Moore’s captivating tale of one man’s mission to groom his ideal mate. A few days after he turned twenty-one and inherited a large fortune, Day adopted two young orphans from the Foundling Hospital and, guided by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the principles of the Enlightenment, attempted to teach them to be model wives. After six months he discarded one girl, calling her “invincibly stupid,” and focused his efforts on his remaining charge. He subjected her to a number of cruel trials—including dropping hot wax on her arms and firing pistols at her skirts—to test her resolve but the young woman, perhaps unsurprisingly, eventually rebelled against her domestic slavery. Day had hoped eventually to marry her, but his peculiar experiment inevitably backfired—though not before he had taken his theories about marriage, education, and femininity to shocking extremes. Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism—and deep contradictions—at the heart of the Enlightenment.
Author | : Thomas Day |
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1801 |
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Release | : 1850 |
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Author | : Thomas Day |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2019-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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The History of Sandford and Merton was one of the best-selling children's books written by Thomas Day. He created it as a contribution to Richard Lovell and Honora Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy, a collection of short stories for children that Maria Edgeworth continued some years after Honora died.
Author | : Lucy Aikin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Accidents |
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"An adaptation of Thomas Day's History of Sandford and Merton. "[I]n order to maintain the identity of the book, it has been thought right to retain the proper names of Sandford, Merton, and Barlow, which form the only exceptions to the rule of using words of one syllable exclusively."--Preface, p. [3]. Cover title: History of Sandford & Merton. By Lucy Aikin (i.e., "Mary Godolphin"). "Copyright 1882 by J.L. Blamire."--back cover. In chromolithographed boards. Plates signed by Dalziel sc. and A. Houghton (opposite p. 26), and Thomas Nast (opposite p. 208). "Uniform with this volume, in words of one syllable. Illustrated. ... Price, fifty cents each. Sold by all booksellers, and sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the publishers. George Routledge & Sons ..."--advertisement, verso of title page."
Author | : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1997-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780822320401 |
DIVThis is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. Eve Sedgwick has brought together contributors to navigate this new terrritory through discussions of a wide range of British, French, and American novels--including canonical/div
Author | : Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett |
Publisher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Common law |
ISBN | : 1584771372 |
Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
Author | : Day Thomas |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2016-06-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781318972456 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author | : Thomas Day |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1860 |
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