Category: John Thorpe

Ep96: The Thing About John Thorpe's Gig

9/10/2024

John Thorpe has recently purchased a gig, and he has a full list of (obviously extremely impressive) features to review with you. Buckle up because this episode we're delivering a crash course on gig carriages.

Selected Sources

Byrne, Aoife. “‘Very Knowing Gigs’: Social Aspiration and the Gig Carriage in Jane Austen’s Works.” Persuasions 37 (2015): 198–207.
Donnelly, Bridget. “Accidents, Risk Management, and Driving Culture, 1780–1830.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 49, no. 1 (2020): 177–99. https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2020.0016.
Duckworth, Alistair M. “Jane Austen’s Accommodations.” Persuasions 7 (1985): 67–77.
Ewing, Jennifer S. “As the Wheel Turns: Horse-Drawn Vehicles in Jane Austen’s Novels.” Persuasions On-Line 40, no. 1 (Winter 2019). https://ezproxy.uvu.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/as-wheel-turns-horse-drawn-vehicles-jane-austen-s/docview/2332294766/se-2?accountid=14779.
Felton, William. A Treatise on Carriages. 3rd ed. Vol. 2. London, 1803. https://archive.org/details/treatiseoncarria01felt/page/n7/mode/2up.
Grose, Francis. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. Project Gutenberg. Accessed July 3, 2024. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5402/pg5402-images.html.
Jones, Hazel. Jane Austen’s Journeys. London: Robert Hale, 2014.
Mahony, Stephen. Wealth or Poverty: Jane Austen’s Novels Explored. London: Robert Hale, 2015.
Nimrod. Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton...: With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits. Methuen and Company, 1837.
Walrond, Sallie. The Encyclopaedia of Driving. London : Country Life Books, 1979. http://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofd0000walr.

Ep54: The Thing About The Monk

11/9/2022

It's almost Halloween and what could be scarier than being trapped in conversation with John Thorpe? This episode we are taking a look at The Monk and discussing Thorpe's taste in literature. If you have ever been to a bad book club meeting, this episode is for you.

Selected Sources:

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “From Review of the Monk by Matthew Lewis.” In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. D: The Romantic Period, edited by Jack Stillinger and Deidre Lynch, 8. ed., 602–6. New York: Norton, 2006.
Groom, Nick. “Introduction.” In The Monk, by M. G. Lewis, vii–xxxviii. edited by Howard Anderson. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/6mrQCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1.
MacLachlan, Christopher. “Introduction.” In The Monk, by Matthew Lewis, vii-xxv. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1998.
Peck, Louis F. A Life of Matthew G. Lewis: Harvard University Press, 1961. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674423855.
“The Monk by Matthew Lewis.” The British Library. Accessed October 21, 2022. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-monk-by-matthew-lewis.

EP28: The Thing About Blaize Castle

2/18/2022

Wave goodbye to Henry and Eleanor Tilney because this week we're headed to Blaize [Blaise] Castle. Except not really, because John Thorpe is a big liar.

If you have ever gone on an ill-advised outing, this episode is for you.

Selected Sources

Alexander, Christine. “The Prospect of Blaise: Landscape and Perception in Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions 21 (1999): 17–31. https://jasna.org/assets/Persuasions/No-21/1e6d94a95c/alexander.pdf
“Blaise Castle - Bristol.” Parks & Gardens. Accessed February 11, 2022. https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/blaise-castle.
“Blaise Castle House Museum.” Bristol Museums. Accessed February 11, 2022. https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/blaise-castle-house-museum/.
“Blaise Castle.” Historic England. Accessed February 11, 2022. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1208115.
Lane, Maggie. “Blaise Castle.” Persuasions 7 (1985): 78–81. https://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number7/lane.html
Wenner, Barbara Britton. Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

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