The English Country Squire as Depicted in English Prose Fiction from 1740 to 1800University of Pennsylvania, 1938 - 149 pages |
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Page 33
... The School for Widows , 1791 , Strict- land's father , whose rise to the squirearchy has already been noted , bought the hall - house and its furnishings unchanged from motives of parsimony and a desire to be accepted as a squire . His ...
... The School for Widows , 1791 , Strict- land's father , whose rise to the squirearchy has already been noted , bought the hall - house and its furnishings unchanged from motives of parsimony and a desire to be accepted as a squire . His ...
Page 47
... The School for Widows , 1791 , has Mr. Strictland opposing con- solidation and enclosure . Mortlake , in Cumberland's Arundel , 1789 , praises the hero's estate : " but what enraptured me most was to find it was not inanimate nature ...
... The School for Widows , 1791 , has Mr. Strictland opposing con- solidation and enclosure . Mortlake , in Cumberland's Arundel , 1789 , praises the hero's estate : " but what enraptured me most was to find it was not inanimate nature ...
Page 78
... The School for Widows , 1791 , Clara Reeve says of one squire : " Reginald was already involved in trouble . He had set out upon too large a scale : he kept a pack of hounds , a large stud of horses ; he loved hunting , shooting , and ...
... The School for Widows , 1791 , Clara Reeve says of one squire : " Reginald was already involved in trouble . He had set out upon too large a scale : he kept a pack of hounds , a large stud of horses ; he loved hunting , shooting , and ...
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Allworthy Anna St Anti-Gallican Bage Banished Barham Downs Bayne-Powell boorish character Charlotte Smith Clara Reeve Collyer Coombe Wood country gentleman country gentry country squire court-leet Cumberland Desmond Edward eighteenth century eighteenth century novel Eliza Emily Montague England English Country Family Pictures Fanny Seymour father Felicia to Charlotte Fielding Fielding's fortune Fox hunting Frances Brooke Gamesters garden Grand Tour Haywood hero History of Miss History of Ophelia Holcroft honor Hugh Trevor Humphrey Clinker hundred pounds hunting interest Invisible Spy James Wallace Lady Julia Mandeville land Lennox Letters from Felicia London lord Lydia Macaulay magistrate manners Marchmont marriage Matrimony Millenium Hall Minifie Mount Henneth novelists Old Manor House parish parliament peace person political Rayland Richard Robert Bage Robert Bage's Sarah says School for Widows Shebbeare Sir Launcelot Greaves Smollett social Spiritual Quixote Squire Western squire's squirearchy tenants thousand pounds Tom Jones Tory Virtuous Villagers William young squire