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Volume 1, Number 1: 18th-Century London

	Stuff	Stuff Coming Together
		This page brings together Lit for All’s four disciplines and their featured practitioners, and provides some miscellaneous information about 18th- century London and its place in the wider world. Have fun browsing the various topics below. To learn more about Johnson (Literature), Harrison (Science), Hogarth (Art), and Handel (Music), visit the page for each discipline. Visit the Stacks page to find lists of great books and other resources.
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The Amazing 100-Year Stuff Chart

	1685	Handel born
	1688	“The Glorious Revolution”: William of Orange invades England and overthrows King James II
	1693	Harrison born
	1697	Hogarth born
	1702	Anne becomes Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland
	1705	Handel’s opera Almira first performed
	1706	Benjamin Franklin born
	1709	Johnson born
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	Some Johnsonian Definitions
	from Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.
	Airling. A young, light, thoughtless person. Anthropophaginian. A ludicrous word, formed by Shakespeare from anthropophagi, for the sake of a formidable sound. Bopeep. To look out, and draw back as if frighted, or with the purpose to fright some other. Brainsick. Diseased in the understanding; addleheaded; giddy; thoughtless. more...

18th-Century Fashion


	1730s, painting by Charles Phillips	1740s, painting by Thomas Gainsborough

Can’t Get Enough of 18th-Century London?

The British Museum, “London 1753”
International World History Project, “Age of Enlightenment”
Norton Anthology of English Literature, “The Restoration and the 18th Century”

“Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London.
No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London
all that life can afford.”—Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell

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