Fashion and Fun in 1808
Last Update 2 May 04

Visitors Since 26 April 2004

See Wikipedia's 1808 Page and the 1808 Calendar; Brainy History also has a 1808 Page

Read texts of 1808, such as Martha Ballad's Diary, 1808;

See a plate from The Costume of Great Britain (1808)

See plates from Designs for the Pavilion of Brighton (1808)

Novels of 1808

Elizabeth Hamilton. The Cottagers of Glenburnie. (Reprinted in Garland Publications' Feminist Controversy in England Series) This is a bizarre novel, fascinating for its many domestic details about cleaning and the kitchen, as well as for its handicapped heroine.

Mary Ann Hanway. Falconbridge Abbey: A Devonshire Story.

Eleanor Sleath. The Bristol Heiress.

Novels Set in 1808

Buck, Gayle. Mutual Consent. New York: Signet, 1991.

Randolph, Ellen. Rushden Legacy. NY: Warner Books, 1985.

Portraits of 1808

Portrait Assumed to be of Monsieur Pacot by Boilly

Portrait Assumed to be of Monsieur de Villiers by Boilly

Marie-Pauline Bonaparte, Princesse Pauline Borghese by Robert Jacques Francois Faust Lefevre (1755-1830)

Dresses of 1808 from Le Beau Monde, or Literary and Fashionable Magazine

Dresses of 1808 from La Belle Assemblée

January 1808 Issue

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