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When we talk about the Georgian Era, for the purposes of this webpage, we will focus on English History c. 1720 to 1750. [Social History] * [Political History] General 18th century Studies Social History Fashion Hairstyles Barbering Cookbooks and Cooking (includes Recipes) 18th c. Wine Recipes Saumon ‡ la sauce douce (1740) Treacle Sponge Pudding 18th c. menu English Traditional Food Cookbooks: [Glasse, Hannah]. The Art of cookery made plain and easy, by a lady. (London, Prospect Books, 1983). *KC+ 1747 (Glasse, H.) 85-177 (Rare Books and Manuscripts Division). First published 1747. A facsimile of the first edition, supplemented by recipes added up to the fifth edition; with introductory essays by Jennifer Stead and Priscilla Bain, glossary by Alan Davidson, notes, and index. Parties (includes Balls, Invitations, etc.) Sports and Card Games Faro Whist Cricket Horse Racing Billiards The World of Painting in the Early 18th Century National Portrait Gallery's 18th c. Collection Watteau's "The Music Lesson" (1717) Boucher's "Pastorale" (1761) Fragonard's "The Reader" (1770-2) The Architecture of the Georgian Era Georgian London Baroque Rococo English Palladian Style Versailles, 1762 Neoclassical 1750-1830 18th C. American Dining Room Furniture The Triumph of Science and the Heavenly City of the 18th Century Philosophe Music Literature Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Charlotte Lennox (1720-1804) Anne Home Hunter (1742-1821) Susanna Blamire (1747-1794) Fanny Burney (1752-1840) Landscape, Maps and the Countryside of England Britain Isle of Man (1724) France (1738) Antwerp (1744) Europe (1730) City Life Rural Life Rhyming Cant Peerages Bourgeois Life Peasant Life What was the Daily Schedule of an 18th Century Noblewoman? Nobleman? Merchant? Servant? Farmer? Religion Political History Monarchs of Britain Jacobite Rebellion The War of Austrian Succession How Wars Were Fought and What they were fought over in the 18th Century The English Military The Army The Navy The Marines Useful Texts and Articles: Poole, Daniel. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman's Daughter : Women's Lives in Georgian England. The Georgian Country House : Architecture, Landscape and Society. Ed. Dana Arnold Potter, Tiffany. Honest Sins : Georgian Libertinism and the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding. (1999) Endelman, Todd M. The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830 : Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society . Suny, Ronald Grigor. The Making of the Georgian Nation. Rodger, N.A.M. The Wooden World : An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. Jago, Judith. Aspects of the Georgian Church : Visitation Studies of the Diocese of York, 1761-1776. Rogers, Nicolas. Crowds, Culture, and Politics in Georgian Britain. Bloom, Harold. Critical Perspective : Late Georgian, Romantic. Wyatt, James. Late Georgian Costume : The Tailor's Friendly Instructor (1822 and the Art of Tying the Cravat). Holmes, Geoffrey. The Making of a Great Power : Late Stuart and Early Georgian Britain, 1660-1722 (Foundations of Modern Britain).