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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"middling sort"”.
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Language Domains and Status in Middle Cornish
… higher status marked court language used by the middling sort.
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Consumption of furniture and furnishings for the home in the West Midlands using local suppliers 1760-1860
… throughout the region. Provincial taste of the middling sort is the main focus of study, rather than the metropolitan and elite forms of consumption which have often attracted more attention. Sources are utilised which span the period 1760-1860 to allow the eighteenth and the nineteenth …
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From Sheffield to Raleigh: a Radical Publishing Network in the Age of Revolution
… a consideration of their place in the rise of a middling-sort class awareness, transatlantic radicalism, the role of feminist autobiographical diaries, and the boosterist activities of the Galeses in North Carolina.
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Reluctant patients: health, sickness and the embodiment of plebeian masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain: evidence from working men's autobiographies
… and Roy Porter in their work on the Georgian middling sort and applies it to working-class men in nineteenth-century Britain. Thus it uses working men's autobiographies to explore conceptions of health, plebeian aetiology, the subjective experience of sickness, lay medicine and the …
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The structure and development of commercial gardening businesses in Fulham and Hammersmith, Middlesex, c. 1680-1861..
… gardeners were a significant proportion of the middling sort in Fulham in the early eighteenth century. Comparison of gardening occupations in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 census enumerators’ books provide insights into the structure of the industry but also reveal the inconsistent application of …
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Manorial Officeholding in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, 1300-1600
… of a medieval equivalent to the early modern ‘middling sort’, suggesting that the emergence of a local elite was operative through manorial structures long before 1600.
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English Bankrupts 1732-1831: A Social Account
… to some very different members of the English middling sort, all of whom, however, were engaged in a trade at which they failed. Some of these bankrupts were the predictable tropes of bankers and merchants who risked too much, but others were small provincial businessmen and shopkeepers. This …
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"A painterly performance of politeness: Jean-Étienne Liotard’s ""Still Life: Tea Set"" and identity in eighteenth-century England"
This thesis explores how Jean-Etienne Liotard’s 1783 painting, Still Life: Tea Set, functioned within its eighteenth-century context. Rather than considering the image as an academic exercise, depiction of the chinoiserie craze, or as evidence of the aging artist’s waning virtuosity, as other …