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Ep96: The Thing About John Thorpe's Gig

9/10/2024

 
Transcript
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.

EP91: The Thing About the Lakes

6/4/2024

 
Lizzy is headed to the Lake District with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner. Or is she? This episode we get into the trip that didn't happen and discuss the picturesque splendors of the Lakes. If you have ever been curious about the ideal cow configuration (and you know you are), this episode is for you.

Selected Sources
  • Allen, Dennis W. “No Love for Lydia: The Fate of Desire in Pride and Prejudice.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 27, no. 4 (1985): 425–43.
  • Dove, Jane. “Geographical Board Game: Promoting Tourism and Travel in Georgian England and Wales.” Journal of Tourism History 8, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2016.1140825.
  • Gilpin, William. An Essay on Prints. 5th ed. London: A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802.
  • ———. Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, on Several Parts of England; Particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland. R. Blamire, 1792.
  • Jones, Hazel. Jane Austen’s Journeys. London: Robert Hale, 2014.
  • Lake District National Park. “Landscape and Geology.” Lake District National Park: [email protected], September 18, 2006. https://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/learning/geology.
  • Lane, Maggie. Jane Austen’s England. London: Hale, 1996.
  • Litz, A Walton. “The Picturesque in Pride and Prejudice.” Persuasions 1 (1979): 13–15.
  • Orestano, Francesca. “The Revd William Gilpin and the Picturesque; Or, Who’s Afraid of Doctor Syntax?” Garden History 31, no. 2 (2003): 163. https://doi.org/10.2307/1587293.
  • Reych, Zofia. Born to Climb: From Rock Climbing Pioneers to Olympic Athletes. Vertebrate Publishing, 2022.
  • Shapard, David M. “Notes and Annotations.” In The Annotated Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. New York: Anchor Books, 2012.
  • Stafford, Fiona J. “Introduction and Notes.” In Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, edited by James Kinsley. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

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.​

Ep57: The Thing About Mrs. Reynolds' House Tours

12/23/2022

 
We're headed back to Pemberley for this episode, where a gracious Mrs. Reynolds is ready to welcome us. We cover the history of country house tours and the role that someone like Mrs. Reynolds would play in facilitating such visits. If you have ever awkwardly run into your almost future fiancé at their house, this episode is for you.

Selected Sources:
  • Aslet, Clive. The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.
  • Girouard, Mark. Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
  • Lupton, Christina. “Notes.” In Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, edited by James Kinsley. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • MacArthur, Rosie. “Gentlemen Tourists in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Travels of William Hanbury and John Scattergood.” In Travel and the British Country House: Cultures, Critiques and Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Jon Stobart. Manchester (GB): Manchester University Press, 2017.
  • Rothery, Mark. “Country House Visiting: Past, Present, and Future.” OUPblog, October 1, 2016. https://blog.oup.com/2016/10/country-house-visiting-jane-austen/.
  • Stobart, Jon. Travel and the British Country House: Cultures, Critiques and Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century. Manchester (GB): Manchester University Press, 2017.​

Ep37: The Thing About Petty-France

5/5/2022

 
If General Tilney's chaise leaves Bath at 10 am and Henry's curricle also leaves Bath at 10 am and there are x postilions and y outriders and Catherine really, really, really just wants to get to the abbey, how many capes are on Henry's greatcoat?

This episode we're all about schedules and mileage (and Henry's greatcoat), as we journey along with Catherine and stopover at Petty-France.

Selected Sources
  • Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. Edited by James Kinsley and John Davie. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008.
  • Cantrell, Dean. “Yes, There Is a Petty France.” Persuasions 9 (1987): 36.
  • Jones, Hazel. Jane Austen’s Journeys. London: Hale, 2014.
  • Lane, Maggie. Jane Austen’s England. London: Hale, 1996.
  • Le Faye, Deirdre. Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels. London: Frances Lincoln, 2003.
  • Mogg, Edward. Mogg’s Pocket Itinerary of the Direct and Cross Roads of England and Wales, with Part of the Roads of Scotland. London, 1828.
  • The Bodkin. “Stay.” Accessed April 30, 2022. https://thebodkin.co.uk/.

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