Recent reading (fandom research edition)
Nov. 28th, 2021 01:00 pmThe first draft of my Yuletide fic is done, and I've got 5K of my next FotH longfic. \o/ Also we had snow yesterday, and it's still lying there and making the view from my window very pretty.
My current project: reading about female Jacobites for my current fic. I already wrote this up for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cahn's salon, but I thought I'd crosspost here as well.
I first read Ladies in Rebellion by Katherine Fusick, a master's thesis on the subject. The first chapter is on women as active agents, focusing on ( Anne and Fanny Oglethorpe. )
Chapter 2 of the thesis is about women and Jacobite material culture, which among other things provided the following amusing essay in the October 1748 issue of the Gentleman's Magazine on the subject of women's garters. It is The Most 18th century, in that it contains military metaphors for het sex and also Latin and Greek quotes. Here's the relevant bit: After having so lavishly spoken in praise of the garter, I cannot but disapprove of it, when it is made the distinguishing badge of a party. It ought to be like the caestus of Venus, so beautifully described in my motto, and not to be daubed with plaid, and crammed with treason. I am credibly informed, that garters of this sort were first introduced in the late rebellion, by some female aide de camps, and whether or not such ladies are to be imitated, is worth the serious consideration of the virtous part of the fair sex. How dare women dress to express their political opinions, instead of to entice me!
Chapter 3 of the thesis was about women in the actual rising of '45, not much new for me here. Arrgh, I really wish Margaret Ogilvy had left behind a diary! Woe. I did finally find an electronic version of Beppy Byrom's diary about Manchester in the '45! It has a lot of reports on troop movements and what the Jacobites were doing when in town—she is definitely interested in military matters—but then there's also stuff about her "smoothing" (ironing) clothes and having dinner with family friends. Then we also get the head-patting footnotes of the 19th century editor ("How delightful is the fair diarist's unsophisticated enthusiasm!")
Finally, I give you The Female Rebels, an anonymous 1747 pamphlet arguing against the Jacobites, on the basis that so many women embraced their cause. I quote at length from this, because it is HILARIOUS--you should read it even if you know nothing about the historical period. The bits about lots of women fighting on the battlefield are exaggerations, though.
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In spite of your beard, sir! *rolls eyes*
My current project: reading about female Jacobites for my current fic. I already wrote this up for
cahn's salon, but I thought I'd crosspost here as well. I first read Ladies in Rebellion by Katherine Fusick, a master's thesis on the subject. The first chapter is on women as active agents, focusing on ( Anne and Fanny Oglethorpe. )
Chapter 2 of the thesis is about women and Jacobite material culture, which among other things provided the following amusing essay in the October 1748 issue of the Gentleman's Magazine on the subject of women's garters. It is The Most 18th century, in that it contains military metaphors for het sex and also Latin and Greek quotes. Here's the relevant bit: After having so lavishly spoken in praise of the garter, I cannot but disapprove of it, when it is made the distinguishing badge of a party. It ought to be like the caestus of Venus, so beautifully described in my motto, and not to be daubed with plaid, and crammed with treason. I am credibly informed, that garters of this sort were first introduced in the late rebellion, by some female aide de camps, and whether or not such ladies are to be imitated, is worth the serious consideration of the virtous part of the fair sex. How dare women dress to express their political opinions, instead of to entice me!
Chapter 3 of the thesis was about women in the actual rising of '45, not much new for me here. Arrgh, I really wish Margaret Ogilvy had left behind a diary! Woe. I did finally find an electronic version of Beppy Byrom's diary about Manchester in the '45! It has a lot of reports on troop movements and what the Jacobites were doing when in town—she is definitely interested in military matters—but then there's also stuff about her "smoothing" (ironing) clothes and having dinner with family friends. Then we also get the head-patting footnotes of the 19th century editor ("How delightful is the fair diarist's unsophisticated enthusiasm!")
Finally, I give you The Female Rebels, an anonymous 1747 pamphlet arguing against the Jacobites, on the basis that so many women embraced their cause. I quote at length from this, because it is HILARIOUS--you should read it even if you know nothing about the historical period. The bits about lots of women fighting on the battlefield are exaggerations, though.
( Read more... )
In spite of your beard, sir! *rolls eyes*
