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Notes for Courtship & Letter Writing Pages

Index

1. Houston, Robert Allan. British Society in the Eighteenth Century
Journal of British Studies, Vol. 25, Issue 4, Re-Viewing the Eighteenth Century, (Oct., 1986),436-466..

Common Questions

1. Burgh, 11.

2. Burgh, 21.

3. Hunter, J. Paul, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990, 267.

Men's Courtship

1. Burgh, James. Youth's friendly monitor: being a set of directions, prudential, moral, religious, and scientific. London : printed for M. Cooper, 1754, FILM X1493 reel 2083 no. 5,11.

2. A New Fortune-Book. Being a New Art of Courtship, open’d for Young Men and Maids Widows Widowers and Batchelors, Instructions for Young Men and Maids...reel 961, no. 9

3. Franklin, Benjamin, Reflexions on courtship and marriage. In two letters to a friend. Wherein a practicable plan is laid down for obtaining and securing conjugal felicity.Addison's discourses are from The Spectator, Vol.III nos. 170 and 171, and are separately paginated, with separate register, and drop-head title reading: 'Appendix to Reflexions on courtship and marriage', FILM X1493 reel 396 no. 10, 23.

Tatler and Spectator Archives

1. Addison, Joseph, and Steele, Richard. Selections From the Tatler and the Spectator
New York: Penguin Books, 1988,

2. Addison & Steele, 260.

3. Addison & Steele, 90.

4. Franklin, Benjamin, Reflexions on courtship and marriage. In two letters to a friend. Wherein a practicable plan is laid down for obtaining and securing conjugal felicity.Addison's discourses are from The Spectator, Vol.III nos. 170 and 171, and are separately paginated, with separate register, and drop-head title reading: 'Appendix to Reflexions on courtship and marriage', FILM X1493 reel 396 no. 10

5. Mackie, Erin. Boston : The Commerce of Everyday Life : Selections from The Tatler and The Spectato Bedford/St. Martin's, c1998, 523.

6. Burgh, 27.

Men's Epistolary Excellence

1. Modern Courtship, The Eighteenth Century; reel 1912, no. 083.

2. The amorous gallant's tongue tipped with golden expressions: or, the art of courtship refined, FILM X1493 reel 774 no. 2

Letter Writing

1. Richardson, Samuel. Familiar Letters on Important Occasions.London, G. Routledge and sons, ltd. 1928, ix.

2. Richardson, xi.