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A fashionable young lady with large plume in her hat being carried through the town in a sedan chair. Etching, c. 1796.
Date: 13 January 1796Reference: 26915i- Books
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The metamorphoses of the town: or, a view of the present fashions. A tale. After the manner of Fontaine. The third edition. To which is added, The Journal of a modern lady. By Dean Swift.
Thomas, Elizabeth, 1677-1731.Date: 1731- Books
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The metamorphoses of the town: or, a view of the present fashions. A tale. After the manner of Fontaine. The third edition. To which is added, The Journal of a modern lady. By Dean Swift.
Thomas, Elizabeth, 1677-1731.Date: [1731]- Pictures
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A young woman's wig and hat being swept away by a gust of wind; behind her a young man is laughing, to the left stand an amused couple. Engraving by J. Caldwell, 1771, after J. Collet.
Collet, John, 1725?-1780.Date: 2 April 1771Reference: 31644i- Books
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The ladies' assistant for regulating and supplying the table; Being a complete system of cookery, &c. Containing the most select bills of fare, properly disposed, for family dinners of five dishes to two courses of eleven and fifteen; with bills of fare for suppers, from five dishes to nineteen; and several deserts: including the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds, and full directions for preparing them in the most approved manner, by which a continual change may be made, as wanted, from the several bills of fare. Likewise directions for brewing, making English wines, raspberry, orange and lemon-brandies, &c. Also remarks on kitchen-poisons, and necessary cautions thereon. Originally published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason, a professed housekeeper, who had upwards of thirty years experience in families of the first fashion.
Mason, Charlotte.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A Trip through the town. Containing observations on the humours and manners of the age. Reflections on London in general. The art of walking in St. James's park. Beaus and Blockheads; together with coffee-house politicians, exposed. A dissertation on the craft of the town-beggars, and the monstrous pride and insolencies of women-servants: the humours of Newgate and Tyburn on the day of execution. The horse-guards, prov'd to be better subjects, though worse soldiers than the foot-guards. A remarkable character of Sir Timothy Testy, knight. The real causes of the debaucheries practis'd upon the fair sex; shewing the true reasons why such infinite numbers of fine young creatures are daily forc'd into the service of the publick. People of fashion required to keep their young daughters out of their kitchens. A merry water-ramble from Westminster to Wapping; the miseries of that part of the town described; with some account of a tumult near King Edward's stairs, occasioned by a sea Lieutenant's Lady unfortunately discharging a chamber-pot from a two-pair of stairs window on a decay'd baronet's wife. With many other diverting particulars.
Date: 1735- Books
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The ladies' assistant for regulating and supplying the table; Being a complete system of cookery, &c. Containing the most select bills of fare, properly disposed, for family dinners of five dishes to two courses of eleven and fifteen; with bills of fare for suppers, from five dishes to nineteen; and several deserts: including the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds, and full directions for preparing them in the most approved manner, by which a continual change may be made, as wanted, from the several bills of fare. Likewise, directions for brewing, making English wines, raspberry, orange, and lemon-brandies, &c also, remarks on kitchen-poisons and necessary cautions thereon. With an appendix, containing general particulars on the breeding, rearing, and management of Poultry; on the business of the dairy; and on the management of the kitchen and fruit garden. Originally published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason, a professed housekeeper, who had upwards of thirty years experience in families of the first fashion.
Mason, Charlotte.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Pictures
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A young woman being instructed to dance by an older woman, both of them dressed in extreme fashions, while a foreign dancing master accompanies them on the violin. Engraving, 1771.
Date: Oct.19th 1771Reference: 35512i- Pictures
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As a young woman looks at the dress she wears in the mirror, the reflection she sees is of a dead woman lying with her head back.
Reference: 35328i- Books
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Advice to the maidens of London : to forsake their fantastical top-knots; since they are become so common with Billings-gate women, and the wenches that cryes kitchin-stuff: together with the wanton misses of the town. To the tune of, Ye ladies of London. This may be printed, R.P.
Date: [1691?]- Books
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The metamorphoses of the town: or, a view of the present fashions. By the late celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, who has so often obliged the town, under the name of Corinna. To which are added, I. The female metamorphosis; or, Ladies transformed into China-Cups. II. The Journal of a Modern Lady. III. The Furniture of a Woman's Mind. IV. An Inventory of a Lady's Dressing-Room.
Thomas, Elizabeth, 1677-1731.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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The metamorphosis of the town: or, a view of the present fashions. A tale: after the manner of Fontaine. The second edition. To which is added, The journal of a modern lady. In a letter to a person of quality. By Dr. Swift.
Thomas, Elizabeth, 1677-1731.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Archives and manuscripts
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Manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744)
Date: 1662 - mid 18th centuryReference: MS.8903- Books
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The Ladies complete pocket-book, for the year of our Lord 1762. Being the second after bissextile or leap-year, the second of King George III. And the eleventh of the new-style used in Great-Britain. Containing, I. An account of the several feasts, fasts, and holidays throughout the year. II. A methodical memorandrum-book, for keeping a regular account, with great ease and propriety, of all moneis receiv'd, paid, lent, or expended; and of all appointments, engagements, or visits, paid or receiv'd; and a separate column for occasional memorandums, &c. III. Some necessary observations on exercise, temperance, and diet. IV. Some useful receipts in confectionary, and other arts, necessary for the fair-sex. V. The manner of dressing in the year 1761, with some directions relating thereto. By a lady of fashion. VI. The favourite new songs sung at Vauxhall-Gardens, Ranelagh-House, and other polite concerts. VII. An address to the ladies of Great-Britain on the subject of gaming; with a tale adapted thereto, intitled, Piquet, or virtue sacrificed. VIII. An account of the House of Mecklerburg, from which Her Present Majesty is descended. To which is added, a list of Her Majesty's Houshold; and her picture, curiously engraved from an original painting, extremely like. IX. Twenty-four country dances, for the year 1762, table of stocks and transferable annuities; marketing tables; table of expences and wages, &c.
Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]- Journals
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The ladies' cabinet of fashion, music and romance
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The Frenzy of fashion. Addressed to the ladies.
Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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A catalogue of the genteel houshold furniture, a piano forte, in mahogany case, an excellent mahogany sideboard with cellarets, an eight-day clock, small iron chest, bedsteads and bedding, chairs, and tables, pier glasses, carpets, and other effects, of a lady. Also, by permission is added, the neat and genteel household furniture, handsome pier glasses, a drawing-room suit, in chintz-pattern cotton, a handsome light phaeton, with town-made plated harness, nearly new, and other effects of a person of fashion, removed from No. 7, Holles Street, Cavendish Square. The furniture comprizes four-bost bed leads, with rich silk needle-work, mohair furniture, &c. Goose feather beds and bedding, excellent mahogany cabinet work in chests of drawers, dining, card, and Pembroke tables, parlor and bed-chamber chairs, turkey and Wilton carpets, kitchen furniture, &c. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Compton, on the premises, No. 18, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, on Wednesday the 4th of November, 1789, and following day. To be viewed on Tuesday preceding, and to the sale, which will begin each day at twelve o'clock. Catalogues may be had at the place of sale; and of Mr. Compton, No. 36, Maddox Street, Hanover Square.
Compton (Auctioneer)Date: 1789]- Pictures
A soldier approaches an open trunk watched by a group of men wearing nun head-dresses in the boudoir of a fashionable lady who sits at her vanity table. Coloured engraving, ca. 1800-1820.
Date: 1800-1820Reference: 589943i- Pictures
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A young lady recommending a specific doctor to her aunt, who rejects her idea because of his outrageous dress-sense. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1892Reference: 14296i- Pictures
The ladies' pocket magazine and gem of fashion: showcard advertising its sale. Lithograph.
Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]Reference: 34386i- Books
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A poetical address to the fashionable ladies of Great Britain.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
Androgyne : fashion + gender / Patrick Mauriès ; text translated from the French by Barbara Mellor.
Mauriès, Patrick, 1952-Date: 2017- Pictures
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A fashionable gentleman sits with his arm round a lady by a tavern table as a girl chalks up drinks on a slate. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
Reference: 26850i- Books
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Fashion. A poem. Addressed to the ladies of Great-Britain. In two books. Book first.
Schomberg, R. (Ralph), 1714-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Fashion. A poem. Addressed to the ladies of Great-Britain. In two books. Book first.
Schomberg, R. (Ralph), 1714-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]