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Letter from Clare Hamilton, Greenwich, Connecticut, to Edwin W. Finch, September 26, circa 1923
No full textClare Hamilton writes to Mr. Finch about his mother's sudden illness
John Hamilton Reynolds, John Clare and The London Magazine
No full textAn essay is presented on the police report "The Literary Police Office," by Edward Herbert, which was published in the "The London Magazine" in the February 1823 issue. The report outlined the arrest of literary people, including poet John Clare. The author stresses his concern on the relationship of Clare with English poet John Hamilton Reynolds. She emphasizes the role of Reynolds as a host to the magazine and as a formative influence on Clare's early career
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A study of John Clare in his historical and political context
No full textAs the title indicates, the basis of the thesis is to set John Clare’s life and work within the context of the social and political history of his time. It is a study that is long overdue. The manner in which topical and political matters were mediated to him and were reflected in his work are analysed. His introduction to the literary and social worlds of Stamford and London is evaluated, and the advantages and disadvantages of patronage assessed. The active and complex political culture of Stamford has been taken into account as this may have affected his later political statements and a growing awareness of his audience. His antagonism to enclosure and the social changes that it engendered are considered. Three major questions that arise from this are addressed. The two local newspapers that Clare is known to have read are used throughout. His correspondence with friends, colleagues and casual correspondents has provided valuable insights as have his poetry and prose writings. Research in the Northamptonshire Record Office has revealed important new information in the form of one book of Enclosure Commissioners’ Minutes dated 1809-14, the first five years of the enclosure of Helpstone, Clare’s native village
Progress and Distress on the Stratford Estate in Clare during the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters - called the SK correspondence in what follows - became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the SK office in Dublin, they were written mainly by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners - Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid-1880s onwards -- ceased business in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, Tenants, Famine: Business of an Irish Land Agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in the larger study from which the present article is drawn are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent) ; ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon peacefully quitting; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlord-assisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and local agents; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK); applications by SK, on behalf of proprietors, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, ete. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. It seems, in the 1840s, that the only estate in Clare managed by SK was that of the elderly Col. Stratford. Although the files on the relatively small Stratford estate are much less extensive than those on some of the estates investigated in detail in the draft of Landlords, Tenants, Famine, they do refer to most of the core aspects of estate management mentioned above. But in the case of the Clare estate, the material on some of those themes is extremely thin.
A&Q Presents: February 20, 2019
No full textCalyn Clare Liss \u2722 - who goes by Calyn, Clare, CC, Caly, and any name that begins with C at this point - grew up in Georgia, went to boarding school in Pennsylvania, and now lives in Maine. She\u27s been writing since she was six, when her story about a girl visiting the zoo got published in her elementary school\u27s literary magazine. Whether or not her writing has increased in quality since then is up for interpretation. Madeline Justiniano \u2721 is an art major and creative writing and theatre double minor. She writes poetry in between bingeing TV shows with her boyfriend and dancing in odd places. Madeline likes flowers, cute animal videos, making art in multiple mediums and spending time with her friends. She\u27s a young woman who is well aware of who she is and how she behaves. She is intensely introspective and concerned about the well being of those she cares about. Madeline works hard on improving herself and her work. She\u27s very intelligent and witty, yet somehow couldn\u27t write this bio herself. - written by Paul Turner \u272
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No full textFront cover illustration: [Photograph, 1920s]. House of David baseball players. Front row, l. to r.: Dutch Faust, shortstop; Cookie Hannaford, outfielder; David Harrison, third baseman; back row: Zeke Baushke, second baseman; and Andy Bell, utility player. The House of David barnstorming baseball team was famous for its pepper game and performed from ca. 1912 to 1936. Faust, who may have been the best natural athlete at the House of David, and Baushke were known as the “diamond cutters” for their prowess at turning the double play. Photo from Clare Adkin’s House of David collection, which was recently acquired by the Hamilton College Library. More information about the collection will be available in a future issue of the Quarterly
The estates of the Clare Family 1066-1317.
No full textPhDThroughout the early Middle Ages, the Clare earls of Hertford and.
Gloucester were prominent figures on the political scene. Their position
as baronial leaders was derived from their landed wealth, and was built up
gradually over two hundred and fifty years. Richard I de Clare arrived in
England in 1066 as a Norman adventurer, and was granted the honours of
Tonbridge and Clare. The family more than doubled its lands during the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, mainly by inheritance, the greatest
acquisition being the honour of Gloucester in 1217.
Only in the first half of the twelfth century was the honour an
autonomous unit. In the honour of Clare, the earls relied on their own
tenants as officials in the twelfth century, but in the thirteenth the
administration was professional and bureaucratic. The earl's relations
with his sub-tenants are unknown before the early fourteenth century; then,
in contrast to other estates, the Clare honour-court was busy, strong and
fairly efficient. In contrast to the honours of Clare and Gloucester,
held of the king in chief, Tonbridge was held of the archbishop of
Canterbury, and the relationship between archbishop and earl was the subject
of several disputes. As to franchises, the earl exercised the highest
which he possessed in England at Tonbridge; elsewhere he appropriated
franchises on a large scale during the Barons' Wars of 1258-1265, but most
of these were surrendered as a result of Edward I's quo warranto proceedings In the thirteenth century, the Clare earls of Gloucester were
important Marcher lords. They strengthened their authority in Glamorgan
by expelling most of the Welsh princes in northern Glamorgan, and they
long avoided royal interference in their liberties. Nevertheless, in
the notorious case of the earls of Hereford and Gloucester in 1291-2,
Edward I temporarily succeeded in breaking down March custom
Author interview: considering Emma Goldman with Professor Clare Hemmings
No full textWe speak to Professor Clare Hemmings about her new book, Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive (Duke UP, 2018), which examines Goldman’s significance as an anarchist activist and thinker to the past and present of feminist theories and activism. Hemmings shows that the contradictions and tensions within Goldman’s approach to race, gender and sexuality speak to unresolved questions that continue to shape feminist practices and politics today
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