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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.

Ep70: The Thing About the Irish Car Party

7/5/2023

 
There's nothing like a summer day at Box Hill. Nothing more awkward, that is. This episode we're jaunting forth with our friends from Highbury for an expedition sure to be uncomfortable for all involved. Along the way, we'll learn about the Irish car party mentioned by Miss Bates.

Selected Sources
  • Bilton, William. The Angler in Ireland: Or An Englishman’s Ramble Through Connaught and Munster, During the Summer of 1833. Vol. 1. 2 vols. London: R. Bentley, 1834. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Angler_in_Ireland/J_EPAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0.
  • Collins, Peter. “Bianconi System.” In The Oxford Companion to Irish History, edited by S. J. Connolly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780199234837.013.0144.
  • Cooper of Beccles, Edwin W. A Gentleman Driving Tandem to a Jaunting Car. c 1820. Oil on canvas, 20 1/8 × 25 7/8 inches. https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41292.
  • Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1424/1424-h/1424-h.htm.
  • Hall, Anna Maria, and Samuel Carter Hall. Hall’s Ireland: Mr & Mrs Hall’s Tour of 1840 (1984 Edn.). Edited by Michael Scott. Vol. 2, 1841. http://www.ricorso.net/rx/library/authors/writers/Hall_AM.htm.
  • “The Jaunting Car.” The Dublin Penny Journal 1, no. 3 (July 14, 1832): 20–21.
  • Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge. “Domestic Intelligence.” July 1789.
  • Willich, Anthony Florian Madinger. The Domestic Encyclopaedia. Vol. 2. Philadelphia: William Young Birch and Abraham Small, 1803. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Domestic_Encyclopaedia_CAR_FIR/lug-AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0.
  • Wordsworth, Dorothy. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803. Project Gutenberg. Accessed June 14, 2023. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28880/28880-h/28880-h.htm.​

Ep50: The Thing About Michaelmas

9/29/2022

 
Netherfield Park is let at last! Mrs. Bennet has heard that a single man in possession of a good fortune will be moving into the neighborhood by Michaelmas, and she is very excited. This episode we cover the significance of Michaelmas, both as a holiday and as a marker of time in Austen's world.

Selected Sources:
  • Baublyté Kaufmann, Ruta. “Changing Seasons: The Cyclical and the Linear.” In The Architecture of Space: Time in the Novels of Jane Austen, 19–79. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90011-7.
  • Johnson, Ben. “Michaelmas.” Historic UK. Accessed September 19, 2022. https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Michaelmas/.
  • McGarry, Marion. “The Michaelmas Customs Associated with September 29th in Ireland.” RTÉ, August 17, 2021, https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0926/1078446-september-29th-michaelmas-ireland/.
  • “Michaelmas Day (Feast of St. Michael and All Angels).” In Salem Press Encyclopedia. Salem Press, November 1, 2018.​

EP32: The Thing About Jane's Irish Melodies

3/17/2022

 
Jane Fairfax has recently received a selection of music, and we're here to unpack the significance of that "new set of Irish melodies." Spoiler alert: Frank Churchill has some explaining to do. If you have ever received a mystery gift, this episode is for you.

Thank you to Salonnières for letting us share part of their gorgeous arrangement of "The Last Rose of Summer" as our outro music this week. You can learn more about Salonnières on their website, www.salonnieres.org and find their albums on iTunes.
Selected Sources:
  • Hunt, Una. “The Harper’s Legacy: National Airs and Pianoforte Music.” Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 6 (2010): 3–53. https://doi.org/10.21427/D7MB3C.
  • Libin, Katheryn L. Shanks. “Music, Character, and Social Standing in Jane Austen’s Emma.” Persuasions 22 (2000): 15–30.
  • McCleave, Sarah. “The Genesis of Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies, 1808–1834.” In Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Paul Watt, Derek Scott, and Patrick Spedding, 47–70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316672037.004.
  • Montagne, Renee, and Miles Hoffman. “The ‘Irish Melodies’ Of Poet Thomas Moore.” Morning Edition. NPR, March 17, 2015. https://www.npr.org/2015/03/17/393530786/the-irish-melodies-of-poet-thomas-moore.
  • Moore, Thomas, and John Allen Stevenson. A Selection of Irish Melodies. Vol. 1. London and Dublin: James and William Power, 1808.
  • Piggott, Patrick. The Innocent Diversion: Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen. London: Cleverdon, 1979.

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