Author: Aleyn Lyell ReadePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Francis Barber, the doctor's Negro servant
Author: Aleyn Lyell ReadeJohnsonian Gleanings: Francis Barber, the doctor's Negro servant
Author: Aleyn Lyell ReadeThe Fortunes of Francis Barber
Author: Michael BundockPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis Barber, born in Jamaica, was brought to London by his owner in 1750 and became a servant in the household of the renowned Dr. Samuel Johnson. Although Barber left London for a time and served in the British navy during the Seven Years’ War, he later returned to Johnson’s employ. A fascinating reversal took place in the relationship between the two men as Johnson’s health declined and the older man came to rely more and more upon his now educated and devoted companion. When Johnson died he left the bulk of his estate to Barber, a generous (and at the time scandalous) legacy, and a testament to the depth of their friendship. There were thousands of black Britons in the eighteenth century, but few accounts of their lives exist. In uncovering Francis Barber’s story, this book not only provides insights into his life and Samuel Johnson’s but also opens a window onto London when slaves had yet to win their freedom.
Master and Servant
Author: Carolyn SteedmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139464973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. This book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman (the Master of the title) and his pregnant maidservant in the late eighteenth century. This case-study of people behaving in ways quite contrary to the standard historical account sheds new light on the much wider historical questions of Anglicanism as social thought, the economic history of the industrial revolution, domestic service, the poor law, literacy, education, and the very making of the English working class. It offers a unique meditation on the relationship between history and literature and will be of interest to scholars and students of industrial England, social and cultural history and English literature.
The Miscellaneous Prose Works ...
Author: Walter ScottThe Prose Works ...
Author: Walter ScottThe Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelists
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Biographies
Author: Walter ScottBiographical Memoirs of Eminent Novelists, and Other Distinguished Persons
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Nollekens and His Times, and Memoirs of Contemporary Artists from the Time of Roubiliac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake
Author: John Thomas SmithPublisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description