Gallery

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Dancing and Fashion

Fashion plates for "Ball Dress" and "Promenade Dresses" from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics. Series 1, volume 4
Title page and frontispiece of Thomas Wilson's 1817 A Companion to the Ball Room...
"Plan and Construction of a Country Dance" from Thomas Wilson's 1820 The Complete System of English Country Dancing

Domestic Arts

Title page and frontispiece of the 1813 edition of Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell's A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed Upon Principles of Economy and Adapated to the Use of Private Families
Pages 18-19 of the 1833 Bentley edition of Jane Austen's Emma
Embroidery pattern from La Belle Assemblée: Or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine. New Series, Volume 1

Education of Women

Pages 2-3 of the 1877 Bentley edition of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, issued together with Persuasion
Pages 156-157 of the 3rd American Edition (1802) of Hannah More's Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent among Women of Rank and Fortune
Title page of Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Condition of Women

Pages 6-7 of the 2nd edition (1786) of William Hayley's A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids. By a Friend to the Sisterhood …
Pages 64-65 of The Laws Respecting Women: As They Regard Their Natural Rights...
Pages 8-9 of the 1894 edition of Jane Austen's Lady Susan; The Watsons

Landscape

"Before" illustration of Wembly Estate from Humphry Repton's 1794 Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening...
Page 157 from Volume 1 of the 1838 Philadelphia Carey, Lea & Blanchard edition of The Novels of Jane Austen

The Picturesque

Illustrated cover of the 7th edition (1811) of Sir Walter Scott's Marmion
Title page of the 7th edition (1811) of Sir Walter Scott's Marmion
Pages 80-81 of the 1886 Bentley edition of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
"Dr. Syntax Sketching the Lake" from the 8th edition (1819) of William Combe's The Tour of Doctor Syntax: In Search of the Picturesque, a Poem
Page 111 from the 8th edition (1819) of William Combe's The Tour of Doctor Syntax: In Search of the Picturesque, a Poem

Religion

Title page of the 1764 edition of The Book of Common Prayer
Title page of Anthony Crole's 1790 Practical Remarks on Religious Profession in General; Likewise, on the Nature and Advantages of Evangelical Churches...
"Synagogue, Duke's Place, Houndsditch" from Volume 3 of Rudolph Ackermann's 1808 Microscosm of London

Poverty

"The Work House" from Humphry Repton's 1816 Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening...
Pages 230-231 of Frederick Morton Eden's 1797 The State of the Poor; Or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, From the Conquest to the Present Period...

Social Mobility

Page 1 of the 1st American edition (1832) of Jane Austen's Persuasion
Pages 64 and 65 from Volume 1 of the 1801 edition of William Betham's The Baronetage of England
Title page and frontispiece of Charles Derrick's 1806 Memoirs of the Rise and Progress of the Royal Navy

Abolition

Title page and frontispiece of the enlarged 7th edition (1794) of Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano...
Pages 174-175 of the 1853 Bentley edition of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Pages 118-119 of the 1788 edition of Thomas Clarkson's An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species....

Napoleonic Wars

Elizabeth Bennet; or, Pride and prejudice : a novel
“Con Razon o Sin Ella" from the 6th edition (1923) of the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando's publication of Francisco de Goya's Los Desastres de la Guerra.
“Y Esto Tambien” from the 6th edition (1923) of the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando's publication of Francisco de Goya's Los Desastres de la Guerra
Page 217 and facing plate from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics, Series 1, Volume 14, showing a plate of "La Belle Alliance" and accompanying article describing the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo

Empire

"Map of The Overland Routs to India, by Russia, Turkey, and Persia" from an early 19th century Pol[itical] mis[cellany]

Reading the News in Austen's England

Front page of the November 2, 1813 issue of Kentish Gazette