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Depression and Gender: The Expression and Experience of Melancholy in the Eighteenth Century
No full textThis thesis investigates the life and work of six eighteenth-century writers, two male and four female. It explores their experience of depression through their letters and other autobiographical material, and examines the ways in which they represent melancholy in their poetry and prose. The subject of Chapter Two is Thomas Gray, whose real life persona as the lonely intellectual is also identifiable in his poetry. The Scottish poet Robert Fergusson is studied in Chapter Three. Fergusson’s lively and vigorous mind was shattered in the months leading up to his death, during which time some of his writing became darkly nihilistic. Chapter Four looks at Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, a lifelong depressive who often wrote about her feelings of despair in her poetry. Chapter Five explores Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was a courageous and controversial figure, but despite her resilience, on occasion in her letters she reveals her vulnerability and susceptibility to low spirits, a mood which is sometimes expressed in her creative writing. Sarah Scott, whose life and work have not yet been considered in relation to the subject of melancholy, is examined in Chapter Six. Her novel includes several low-spirited and depressed female characters who are continually seeking asylum from a hostile world. Chapter Seven analyses Charlotte Smith, a mother of twelve children whose unhappy marriage ended in separation. Smith wrote extensively about her depression in her letters, prefaces, poetry and novels.
This study shows that the women in particular use their writing on melancholy and depression to express their discontent with the confined way in which they are often expected to live out their lives
Erna Fergusson
No full textPortrait of a child (full-length), identified as Erna Fergusson (later a well known New Mexican author), in costume for a Washington's Birthday party sponsored by the Ilfeld family. Three different images on printing-out paper; studio mount car
Peter Fergusson et Stuart Harrison. — Rievaulx Abbey. Community, Architecture, Memory [with contributions from Glyn Coppack]. New Haven, Yale Univers. Press, 1999.
No full textAndrault-Schmitt Claude. Peter Fergusson et Stuart Harrison. — Rievaulx Abbey. Community, Architecture, Memory [with contributions from Glyn Coppack]. New Haven, Yale Univers. Press, 1999.. In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 45e année (n°177), Janvier-mars 2002. pp. 83-85
Peter Fergusson et Stuart Harrison. — Rievaulx Abbey. Community, Architecture, Memory [with contributions from Glyn Coppack]. New Haven, Yale Univers. Press, 1999.
No full textAndrault-Schmitt Claude. Peter Fergusson et Stuart Harrison. — Rievaulx Abbey. Community, Architecture, Memory [with contributions from Glyn Coppack]. New Haven, Yale Univers. Press, 1999.. In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 45e année (n°177), Janvier-mars 2002. pp. 83-85
Castles in the air [music] /
No full textFor voice and piano.; "New edition".; Lithography by Fergusson & Mitchell.; "Scotch song, sung by Miss Lizzie Stuart in her entertainment entitled 'A peep at Scotland through her song'" -- T.p.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an6340850; MUS: N, JAF ; A, MUSM 158802/25
[Rezension von:] Fergusson, Peter; Harrison, Stuart A.: Rievaulx Abbey : community, architecture, memory. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999
No full textThe Nova Scotian Institute of Science
No full textReceived for publication September 1962. Includes bibliographical references.In 1963, this item was published separately as Bulletin no. 18 of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Author C. B. Fergusson was the Provincial Archivist
Bridge
No full textFergusson River Railway Bridge with Gangers' quarters on left and Stuart Highway on right.Fleetwood, A. G.Date:194
[Rezension von:] Fergusson, Peter; Harrison, Stuart A.: Rievaulx Abbey : community, architecture, memory. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999
No full textThe Layburnes and their world, circa 1620-1720: the English Catholic community and the House of Stuart
No full textThis thesis concerns Catholics in north-western England in the late
seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in particular the Layburne family
of Cunswick, Cumbria. It examines their role in local society and at the courts
of the Stuart queens in London and St Germains. It traces their growing
commitment to the Jacobite cause and their hopes of thereby regaining
positions of influence at court and in the country.
The north-western Tory gentry's sympathy with their Catholic counterparts is
contrasted with the treatment given to the Quakers in the same area. The latter
were regarded as a danger to the fabric of society, representing an economic
and political threat to the government. As an example of how integrated the
Catholics were, the services in Kendal parish church were more Papist than
non-conformist, even under the Protectorate. At the Restoration the Catholics
continued to contribute to the upkeep of the church and were well-regarded in
the area.
The Layburnes occupied positions during the reign of James II, both in the
north-west and at court. Bishop John Laybume acted as James II's Catholic
bishop, and had also been involved in the Secret Treaty of Dover in 1670,
under Charles II. during James II's reign bishop Layburne had organised the
funding of Catholic chapels, clergy and education. This activity was
discovered and used in the prosecution of Catholic gentry in the trials
following the Lancashire Plot (1694). On acquittal, the Jacobites vigorously
renewed their plotting in Lancashire. Planning for a Jacobite invasion reached
its culmination in the 1715 Rising, only to end with the siege of Preston.
Despite some executions and the forfeiture of estates, many Catholic Jacobite
families survived the 1715 rising. Few rose in 1745 and many Catholic
families, with the exception of the Layburnes, prospered and continue to this
day
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