Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns,

Describes various aspects of life in eighteenth-century England, discussing politics, class and race, family, housing, clothing, work and wages, education, food

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The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to u