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  • Learning New Tricks

    I have been to the Library of Congress five times, and am going tomorrow. It is a wonderful resource, and so convenient. I am ashamed I have not made…

  • Marriage à la Mode (Detail)

    Marriage à la Mode, by William Hogarth (detail). Engraving.London, 1745. Author’s collection

    ''French commentator wrote that leather shoes were…

  • Mid-18th Century Woman's Shoe

    Mid-eighteenth-century woman’s shoes with cream silk
    with embroidered diaper pattern, c. 1765–80. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 920.16.2.A-B.…

  • Woman's Shoe in Early 18th Century

    Early eighteenth-century woman’s shoe with cream silk
    brocaded with large rose motif, c. 1730–60. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 921.2.29. Photo:…

  • "Walking for Pleasure'' in the 18th Century

    "You are clean Fair Lady but our Ways and Means are Dirty." Mezzotint, 1791. London. Printed for Robert Sayer. Guildhall Library, Print Room, 16903.…

  • Research Reflections

    I did researches before in school and in college, but I discovered that these were not real researches. The research processes was very significant.…

  • The Rape of the Lock

    Illustration to Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," from a volume of "Roach's Beauties of the Poets"; A group drinking tea in a bright reception room, as a…

  • Two women in conversation over tea

    Two women in conversation over tea, while a man fixes the hair of the woman at left and a small dog watches from the right foreground, revellers…

  • Out of the Dark Ages

    This course has been an eye-opening and broadening experience for me in many respects. I have been out of the academic realm for almost 25 years,…

  • The Research Process

    My experience conducting research for this class was similar to other courses, but there were several important differences. The focus on an object…

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