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EP84: The Thing About Annuities

2/28/2024

 
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Fanny Dashwood is offering up her services as a financial advisor and actuary, and John Dashwood is ready to be advised. This episode we break down the feckless fiduciary fraternalism of one Mr. John Dashwood, specifically as it relates to annuities. 
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Selected Source:
  • Annuity - Oxford Reference.” Accessed February 6, 2024. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198600800.001.0001/acref-9780198600800-e-46?rskey=NISyah&result=12.
  • Clery, Emma Juliet. Jane Austen: The Banker’s Sister. London: Bb. Biteback, 2017.
  • Kopf, Edwin W. “The Early History of the Annuity,” n.d.
  • Skwire, Daniel D. “Actuarial Issues in the Novels of Jane Austen.” North American Actuarial Journal 1, no. 1 (January 1997): 74–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/10920277.1997.10595593.
  • Smith, Phoebe A. “‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘The Lady’s Law’: The Failure of Benevolent Paternalism.” CEA Critic 55, no. 3 (1993): 3–25.

Ep39: The Thing About Mrs. Dashwood's Linens

5/22/2022

 
John and Fanny Dashwood are sadly waving goodbye to some valuable household objects, and we're here to explain why they really need to get over themselves. This episode we're looking at the linens in Sense and Sensibility, and the role of such objects in Austen's time.

Selected Sources:
  • Boase, Tessa. The Housekeeper’s Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House. London: Aurum Press, 2015.
  • Brodie, Antonia. “Marking and Memory: An Embroidered Sheet in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.” TEXTILE 14, no. 2: Emotional Textiles (May 3, 2016): 160–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2016.1139381.
  • Buchan, William. Domestic Medicine: Or a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines. 14th ed. London, 1794.
  • Dolan, Alice. “The Fabric of Life: Time and Textiles in an Eighteenth-Century Plebeian Home.” Home Cultures 11, no. 3 (November 2014): 353–74. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174214X14035295691238.
  • ———. “Touching Linen: Textiles, Emotion and Bodily Intimacy in England C. 1708-1818.” Cultural and Social History 16, no. 2 (March 15, 2019): 145–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2019.1586810.
  • Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. North and South. Edited by Angus Easson. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Postrel, Virginia. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World. New York: Basic Books, 2020. 
  • St Clair, Kassia. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History. London: John Murray, 2018. 
  • Victoria and Albert Museum. “Linen – The Original Sustainable Material,” April 2018. https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/linen-the-original-sustainable-material.

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