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See Wikipedia's 1796 Page and the 1796 Calendar; Brainy History also has a 1796 Page as does Jack Lynch
See a plate from The Natural History of British Insects (Vol. V, 1796) and one of Blackfriats Bridge, London, 1796
Read texts of 1796, such as Washngton's Farewell Address; Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon (poems and anecdotes); Jane Austen's Letters to her sister Cassandra; Treaty of Peace and Friendship; A 1796 American Cookbook; Martha Ballad's Diary, 1796
Some other sites of interest: (1) the US presidential election of 1796 (2) Irish Flax Growers List for 1796 (3) North Italian Battles, 1796-1800 (4) Ohio Company Stockholders list for 1796 (5) List of Church Visitations in Bannn Valley, Ireland
If you want to stay at a Inn built and run since 1796, try The Dorset Inn (Dorset,VT). If you just want a B&B built in 1796, America offers a number of options: (1) The 1796 House Stockbridge, MA [2nd web site on it] (2) The 1796 House New Haven, VT [or in Middlebury VT according to this site] (3) The Old Stone Manse, 1796 Caldwell, WV (4) Hidden Mill Remsenburg, NY (5) Catamount Family Center and B&B Williston, VT (6) Stagecoach House Inn Wyoming, RI (7) Mrytles Plantation St. Francisville, LA [which claims it is haunted!] (7) Kenmore Inn Fredericksburg VA
Other buildings of 1796 are (1) The Ship Inn Exton, PA, a restaurant (2) Old Stone House Washington, DC, a museum (3) Montauk Point Lighthouse Montauk, NY, a museum (4) Crane House Montclair, NJ, a museum (5) Marble Springs Knoxville TN, a museum (6) The Old Stone Presbeyterian Church Lewisburg, WV, an active church (7) Green County Courthouse Waynesburg, PA, a museum
William Beckford, Modern Novel Writing This is an extremely amusing satire of women's writing. Beckford adopts the feminist techniques of women writers drained or subverted of their feminist content. His duel scene is one of the funniest scenes I've ever read.
Frances Burney, Camilla Camilla, Camilla, what you make us suffer as you grow up! This monster-long novel has some wonderful scenes and fascinating characters. Among my favorite scenes are the "attack" of the bull, the last minute rescue of the carriage headed for the cliff, the visit to the madwoman, the moonlight walk where Camilla meets the glamorous stranger, the assault at the seaside resort, the pathetic amateur play, and the melodramatic, bloody climax.
Elizabeth Gunning, translator, The Foresters: a Novel
Elizabeth Hamilton, Letters of a Hindoo Rajah The British upper-classes are satirized for their lack of true religious feeling, inhospitableness to strangers, and their excess love of dress and cards. The Hindoo narrator interprets the English aristocrats mania for cards as a religious ritual, "the Poojah of cards."
Mary Hays, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney --This first person narrative is gaining in renown and popularity today. Emma is an amazing woman who won't take no from the man she loves. This novel combines immense psychological tension with intense action and drama, including carriage accidents, madness, adultery, murder, and suicide.
Elizabeth Helme, The Farmer of Inglewood Forest I never got past the first chapter, but then I was young and busy, so it might be a good one.
Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art A tragic tale condemning the social system that allows male vice to flourish while fallen females are driven to starvation, prostitution, or worse.
Mrs. Eliza Phelp Parsons, The Mysterious Warning This is another of the famous novels mentioned in Austen's Northanger Abbey
Regina Maria Roche, The Children of the Abbey Set in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, this novel tells the tale of four young protagonists. A gothic strain runs throughout this novel, with its monstrous villain who enjoys kidnapping and raping women and ruining the careers of promising young miliary men. The Irish and Scottish settings are particularly gothic, with meetings at night in Irish ruins and a magnificent semi-ruined Scottish castle.
Charlotte Smith Marchmont This rivals Emmeline as my favorite Smith novel. This novel is eerily like Charles Dickens' Bleak House with its savage attack on the vampire nature of lawyers. The mad Phoebe, the masculine adventures in war-torn Europe, the pettiness and spite of fashionable females in spa towns, and the horror of British debtors' prison are some of the memorable features of the novel.
Portrait
of Countess Apraxina by Elisabeth
Vigee Le Brun
"The Publisher of the GALLERY of FASHION most respectfully submits the undertaking of
a Third Volume of his Work, to the particular notice and patronage of his Subscribers; the two
preceding ones being honoured with so very favourable a reception, he has been induced, in order
to preserve that superiority, which the GALLERY of FASHION has hitherto maintained over similar
publications in other countries, to limit the number of copies to that of the Subscribers, who, by this
regulation, may boast to possess an unique repository of English national Dresses of Ladies;
which, considering the limitation of copies, must become in time very scarce, and of course very
valuable."
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This issue includes original descriptions of court dress and pirated dress descriptions from The Gallery of Fashion. See also the engraving of the Infant Princess' Baptism.
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1796, Plate no. 29. The same slight train is seen in this Viennese dress as in the English dresses linked to above. The hem is elaborately embroidered and exposed by the three-quarter length tunic-style overdress. |
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