by eleanorh | May 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Smollett’s contemporaries Henry Fielding, The Covent-Garden Journal (London: Mrs. Dodd, 1752), [S.L.] I [Fielding – 1752] fol. Although Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett may never have met each other in person, they were aware of each other and each other’s work....
by eleanorh | May 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Smollett as translator Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, trans. by Tobias Smollett (London: A. Millar et al., 1755), [S.L.] I [Smollett – 1755] fol. Smollett was as a translator as well as an author. Most of his...
by eleanorh | May 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Smollett Scintillates at 300 If attendees were flocking to the University of London’s Senate House to attend the IES conference ‘Tobias Smollett at 300: The Work of Writing’, Senate House Library would be regaling them with books pertaining to Smollett to examine. As...
by eleanorh | Mar 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
On the 138th birthday of Milanese industrialist, publisher and bibliophile Giovanni Tréccani, CULTIVATE MSS’s Dr Federico Botana traces the European travels of one of Italy’s most celebrated Renaissance manuscripts – revealing how Tréccani’s persuasive talents, a...
by eleanorh | Jan 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over the past month or so, I’ve been mulling over Marion Thain’s brilliantly suggestive essay on the nature and future of English as a discipline, which has helped me to notice things that otherwise might have passed me by. Barely a week after its appearance, for...
by eleanorh | Jan 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the early morning I run through Beckenham Place Park which is cut in two by the trainline to Victoria. Half-empty carriages click-clack past carrying the remaining few commuters into the city. I have missed reading books in the Victorian manner, sitting in the...
