Those Essex girls: the lives and letters of Lettice Knollys, Penelope Rich, Dorothy Perrott Percy, and Frances Walsingham

This essay examines the lives and letters of four of the most influential women at the court of Queen Elizabeth I: Lettice Knollys her daughters Penelope Rich and Dorothy Perrott Percy and her daughter-in-law Frances Walsingham, all of whom lived scandalous but powerful lives.

Closer settlement in the Western District of Victoria: a case study in Australian land use policy, 1898-1914

The promotion of closer settlement in the Australian state of Victoria between 1898 and 1914 was viewed as a panacea to many of the problems that beset the state. The region known as the Western District of Victoria was seen as particularly suitable for the application of land re-settlement policy. The study of this region highlights several important features of the closer settlement experiment in Victoria. First, it illustrates how the basic principles of closer settlement were used to further the interests of particular groups. Second, it highlights the flaws in foundations of the Closer Settlement Act which impacted on the settlers chances of success. And thirdly it points to the disastrous implications of policy implementation that paid little attention to the geographical and economic parameters governing the outcome of farming enterprises.

Colby College 1820-1925: An Account of Its Beginnings, Progress and Service

The definitive history of Colby College's first century.

Playing the Agnes : Hester Thrale-Piozzi and Frances Burney

Guided by the feminist intention of reasserting the importance of neglected female writers, I have used this work to re-examine the lives and texts of eighteenth-century diarists Hester Thrale-Piozzi and Frances Burney. Adopting an interdisciplinary methodology, I draw on both literary and non-literary material to examine the effect of familial and social patriarchy in eighteenth-century England. Using the diaries, journals and letters of Hester and Frances, I ask why female conformity to masculine domination was expected, and how violence was used to extract subserviant behaviour from women. Beginning with gossip, and encompassing social, editorial and physical abuse, I use the medical profession's manipulation of female vulnerability to exemplify the way society legitimates violence to ensure female ductility. Moving beyond this physical aspect, I then examine the psychical, and question the existence of a ‘self’ which is vulnerable to external manipulation. By diverging from the influence of Freudian psychology, and developing a form of Jungian feminism, I propose the existence of an essential female Self which transcends the constraints of societal expectations and physical violence. In this work, both Hester and Frances emerge as physically and psychically strong entities who were forced to adopt socially conformist personae to survive.

Establishing insurance markets in settler economies. a comparison of Australian and South Africa insurance markets, 1820-1910

How did insurance markets in the settler economies of Australia and South Africa develop? This paper investigates the establishment of the local insurance industries in two settler economies in the wake of the absence of comparative studies in the emergence of insurance markets in the periphery. The paper compares conditions in these settler economies and notes the innovative role of local entrepreneurs. British insurance companies extended operations into the British colonies, but local interests emerged to challenge their dominance. Innovations in organisational form, product offerings and distribution channels afforded local entrepreneurs a competitive advantage in the life market. Collusion in the fire market restricted innovative practices and retained foreign control. This article explains the agency of local entrepreneurs in the emergence of insurance markets in two settler societies at the end of the nineteenth century. This historical development path has notable implications for the current development of insurance markets in Africa.

Tatler (Volume 1 1898)

The Winthrop yearbook was published from 1898 to 2002. It has been known as the Tatler since its inception except for 1904 (Lang Syne) and 1918 (Tatler a la Guerre). No yearbook was published in 1900, 1902, 1903, 1905,1906.

Biologia reprodutiva do lagostim Parastacus varicosus Faxon, 1898 (Decapoda : Parastacidae) da Bacia do Rio Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul

Considerando à lacuna sobre as informações da biologia reprodutiva dos crustáceos de água doce no Brasil, principalmente dos lagostins, a presente pesquisa teve como objetivo caracterizar aspectos da dinâmica da reprodução, como a descrição e desenvolvimento das gônadas, e analisar as variações bioquímicas do metabolismo intermediário de Parastacus varicosus Faxon, 1898 para relacioná-las ao período reprodutivo. Os animais foram amostrados de junho de 2004 a maio de 2005 em um arroio pertencente à Bacia do Rio Gravataí, localidade Cova do Touro, Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul. As fêmeas foram separadas em três estágios gonadais de acordo com a maturação. Todos animais apresentaram os dois pares de aberturas e dutos genitais. Foram identificados histologicamente 40 machos, 32 fêmeas e 6 espécimes transicionais. Os índices gonadossomático (IG) e hepatossomático (IH) foram determinados. Ocorreu um aumento do IG e uma diminuição no IH, no período de passagem da primavera para o verão, indicando uma maior atividade reprodutiva no verão e uma possível transferência das reservas do hepatopâncreas para a gônada nesse período. Nas análises bioquímicas da hemolinfa, hepatopâncreas, músculo e gônadas os níveis de glicose, glicogênio, proteínas totais, colesterol e lipídeos totais foram quantificados. As variações sazonais observadas mostraram estar relacionada com o período reprodutivo, mostrando uma transferência de parte das reservas energéticas do hepatopâncreas e do músculo para o desenvolvimento das gônadas durante período reprodutivo. Nessa pesquisa portanto foi observada uma correlação entre os resultados obtidos das investigações das gônadas e das análises bioquímicas indicando assim uma conexão entre essas pesquisas e contribuindo para um melhor entendimento da biologia reprodutiva de P. varicosus.

As artes performativas no Funchal oitocentista (1820-1913)

O trabalho que aqui se apresenta surge no âmbito do Mestrado em “Gestão Cultural”. O tema tratado nesta dissertação é a evolução das artes performativas no Funchal Oitocentista (1820 -1913). A presente investigação debruça-se sobre um conjunto de espaços para espectáculos e sobre os diversos grupos e associações de índole artística que circularam por esta cidade, tornando as suas actuações de grande importância na vida Funchalense. A interligação entre as actividades artísticas, a gestão dos espaços necessários à sua realização e o funcionamento da sociedade funchalense, distante da Capital portuguesa mas situada na rota dos navios que se dirigiam aos outros continentes, é o assunto abordado e desenvolvido neste trabalho. Este estudo contempla a análise da construção ou aproveitamento dos diversos espaços utilizados para artes performativas na cidade, o caso específico do Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias, os artistas que visitaram Funchal na época em estudo, os artistas locais que actuaram no Funchal Oitocentista e o seu público espectador.

Dos caminhos de água aos caminhos de ferro: a construção da hegemonia de Natal através das vias de transporte (1820-1920)

At a time of changes on the territory during the 19th century, the political and socioeconomic elites of the province and later State of Rio Grande do Norte evolved a discourse in order to justify the permanence of Natal as a city holding a status of capital. In this work we analyze the means employed by the ruling classes to impose their wish to raise Natal to an outstanding position among the existing cities by intervening on the territory during a period of one hundred years (1820-1920). During that time, which was characterized by changing commercial flows and technological development, the elites interventions were essentially directed to the implementation of modes of transportation, especially the railway. We try to understand the reinforcement of Natal as a capital city not only in political and administrative terms, but mainly in a commercial and symbolic manner, through the discourse and interventions undertaken by the local administrative elites, who stimulated the creation of a set of relations on the territory that also imprinted visible marks in the capital s urban fabric. These interventions were based upon the establishment of an infrastructure for exporting the State s production, firstly through and despite the Potengi River, and later on by the construction of railways. Although the project of Natal s hegemony had been outlined before the establishment of the railway network, in both cases the ultimate objective was to reinforce and develop the capital city as a commercial urban center to the detriment of other cities

O teatro de Deus: a construção do espaço sagrado de juazeiro a partir de narrativas femininas (Ceará, 1889-1898)

In this work, we discuss the construction of Juazeiro in the state of Ceará -, as a sacred space from the analysis of the testimonies of nine religious women called beatas in an Episcopal process in the late nineteenth century. This process was initiated in 1891 to investigate the occurrence of an Eucharistic miracle with beata Maria Magdalena do Espírito Santo de Araújo. We show that the punitive strategies of the Diocese eventually caused a reordering of pilgrimages to Juazeiro which until 1894 worshipped the Precious Blood and that after the condemnation of the phenomena by the Holy See are rearranged around the figure of Father Cicero Romão Batista, under the pretext of worshipping the priest himself and also Nossa Senhora das Dores, currently the patron saint of the city of Juazeiro do Norte.