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Ep86: The Thing About Brandon and Willoughby's Appointment

3/28/2024

Colonel Brandon and Willoughby are about to meet by appointment, and their seconds are ready with all the necessary administrative details. Which leads us to ask the question, could this meeting have been an email? Join us this episode as we break down the details of the duel in Sense and Sensibility.

Selected Sources

A Late Captain in the Army. General Rules and Instructions for All Seconds in Duels. Whitehaven: John Ware, 1793.
Banks, Stephen. “Killing with Courtesy: The English Duelist, 1785-1845.” Journal of British Studies 47, no. 3 (2008): 528–58.
Barrington, Jonah, and George A. Birmingham. Recollections of Jonah Barrington. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1918. http://archive.org/details/recollectionsofj00barriala.
Barrington, Sir Jonah. Personal Sketches of His Own Times. H. Colburn, 1827.
Brewton, Vince. “‘He to Defend: I to Punish’: Silence and the Duel In Sense and Sensibility.” Persuasions, no. 23 (2001): 78–89.
Erickson, Carolly. Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England. First Harper Paperback. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2011.
Fullerton, Susannah. “The Many Duels of Sense and Sensibility.” Persuasions 44 (2022): 146–57.
Holland, Barbara. Gentlemen’s Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk. New York: Bloomsbury, 2003.
McCalman, Iain, Jon Mee, Gillian Russell, Clara Tuite, Kate Fullagar, and Patsy Hardy, eds. “Duelling.” In An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199245437.001.0001/acref-9780199245437-e-197.
McMaster, Juliet. “Good Punishes Bad? The Duels in Sense and Sensibility.” Persuasions On-Line 32, no. 1 (2011). https://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol32no1/mcmaster.html.
Mortimer, Ian. The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830. New York ; London: Pegasus Books, 2023.
Murray, Venetia. An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England. New York: Penguin, 2000.

EP85: The Thing About Henry's Great Coat

3/13/2024

Transcript

If Catherine is now riding with Henry after stopping at Petty-France for two hours and there are X number of capes on Henry's great coat and Y number of inches separating Catherine from Henry in the curricle (and WOW does Henry's hat sit so well), exactly how blissfully happy is Catherine in this moment?
The answer is innumerable, friends.

Selected Sources

Cunnington, C. Willett, and Philis Cunnington. Handbook of English Costume in the Nineteenth Century. 3rd ed. Boston: Plays, Inc, 1971. http://archive.org/details/handbookofenglis0000cunn.
Davidson, Hilary. Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion. New Haven ; London: Yale University Press, 2019.
Derry, Stephen. “Freud, The Gothic, and Coat Symbolism in Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions 18 (1996): 48–53.
Henderson, Robert. “‘Not Merely an Article of Comfort’: British Infantry Greatcoats During the War of 1812.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 75, no. 301 (1997): 23–36.
Le Bourhis, Katell , ed. The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989.
Somerset, Henry Charles FitzRoy. Driving. London: Longmans, Green, 1889.
Waugh, Norah. The Cut of Men’s Clothes: 1600-1900. Reissued. New York: Routledge, 1987.

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