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EP80: The Thing About the Pump-Room

11/30/2023

There's nothing like a refreshing drink of mineral water under the watchful gaze of Beau Nash to get your day off to the right start. This episode we're headed to the pump-room in Bath to partake of the finest water on offer. And we promise that we actually do wash our glasses. Please exit on the left, and don't forget to tip your pumper.

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Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture. “Bath: Constituency (Borough).” ECPPEC. Accessed November 18, 2023. ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/case-study-constituencies/bath/.
Haddon, John. Bath. London: Batsford, 1973.
Historic England. “Grand Pump Room, Non Civil Parish - 1394019.” Accessed November 18, 2023. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1394019.
Lane, Maggie. A Charming Place: Bath in the Life and Times of Jane Austen. Bath: Millstream Books, 1988.
———. Jane Austen’s England. London: Hale, 1996.
Lynch, Deidre. “Notes.” In Persuasion, by Jane Austen, edited by James Kinsley. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Murray, Venetia. An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England. New York: Penguin, 2000.
Nicolson, Nigel. The World of Jane Austen. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991.
Savage, J. The Original Bath Guide, Considerably Enlarged and Improved, Comprehending Every Species of Information That Can Be Required by the Visitor and Inhabitant, Etc. J. Savage; Meyler & Son, 1811.
The Historic & Local New Bath Guide: Forming a Complete Pocket History of Bath (with a Map). J. Browne, 1802.
The Improved Bath Guide; Or, Picture of Bath and Its Environs. Wood & Cunningham, 1809.
Thicknesse, Philip. The Valetudinarians Bath Guide: Or, the Means of Obtaining Long Life and Health. 2nd ed. London: Dodsley, Brown, Pratt, and Clinch, 1780.

Ep79: The Thing About the Late Mr. Darcy's Steward

11/16/2023

Overrun with moles? Worried about this year's crop yields? Thinking about conducting a comprehensive estate survey? We know exactly who you should call. This episode we cover the profession of estate steward as it existed in Austen's time and get into the many (seriously, many) responsibilities that the job entailed.

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Selected Sources

Adams, Samuel, and Sarah Adams. The Complete Servant: Being a Practical Guide to the Peculiar Duties and Business of All Descriptions of Servants ... with Useful Receipts and Tables. London: Knight and Lacey, 1825.
Cortese, Beth. “Home Economics: Female Estate Managers in Long Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Society.” In At Home in the Eighteenth Century, by Stephen G. Hague and Karen Lipsedge, 126–46. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429297267-6.
Hainsworth, D. R. “The Estate Steward.” In The Professions in Early Modern England, edited by Wilfrid Prest. Taylor & Francis, 1987.
———. “The Rise of the Estate Steward.” In Stewards, Lords and People: The Estate Steward and His World in Later Stuart England, 6–20. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511983412.
Hey, David, ed. “Steward.” In The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History. Oxford University Press, 2009. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199532988.001.0001/acref-9780199532988-e-1735.
Houston, R. A. “Stewards and Other Estate Officials.” In Peasant Petitions: Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600-1850, by R. A. Houston, 37–47. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137394095_4.
Shields, Sarah. “‘An Old Maid in a House Is the Devil’: Single Women and Landed Estate Management in Eighteenth‐Century England.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 44, no. 4 (December 2021): 423–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12807.

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