Power and the Professions in Britain 1700–1850

Corfield, Penelope J.

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“…85 The clergy purchased and commissioned printed works, and advertisements were often directed at them. 86 The two churches in the town, St James's Church and St Nicholas's Church, Lowther Street (which the Ware family attended), were customers, and a total of thirteen 'reverends' were subscribers to the Pacquet.…”

Section: John Ware's Whitehaven Business 1799-1805: Local Communicatmentioning

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The Communications Broker and the Public Sphere

Gardner

2013

Cultural and Social History

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Later eighteenth-century newspapers have been credited with shaping and reflecting readers' politics and growing sense of regional and national identity. However, historians have long ignored the role that newspaper proprietors played in the construction of those newspapers. Through a close study of one provincial proprietor, John Ware of Whitehaven, this article demonstrates that newspaper owners were shrewd operators in the public sphere. They were businessmen and women for whom the imagined community of readers was a real community of friends and business associates.

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Section: John Ware's Whitehaven Business 1799-1805: Local Communicatmentioning

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The Communications Broker and the Public Sphere

Gardner

2013

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“…Corfield notes that nobody voting at the 1734 election in Norwich called himself an attorney: 22 of the city's 30 enrolled lawyers did vote, but each one styled himself 'gentleman '. 33 Similarly, the probate records for Chester quite legitimately mask many attorneys as gentlemen. Another significant group often accorded genteel status were military men, either active or retired.…”

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Who were the urban gentry? Social elites in an English provincial town, c. 1680–1760

Stobart

2011

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This paper explores the identity and social worlds of the ‘urban gentry’ of Chester as they developed from the late seventeenth to the mid eighteenth century. In place of the political and cultural definitions which characterise analyses of this group, it takes the self-defined ‘occupational’ titles of probate records as a starting point for an investigation into the background and activities of those styling themselves ‘gentleman’. Central to their identity were networks of friendship and trust. These reveal the urban gentry to have been closely tied with both the urban middling sorts and the rural gentry: a position which at once reflected and underpinned their particular situation within eighteenth-century society.

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“…While noting the pronounced opposition to women taking up professional work, Penelope Corfield has suggested that the meritocratic ethos of professionalism also laid its gender-biases open to challenge by women. 5 Studies of female teachers, writers, and painters have explored the extent to which women could adopt and adapt the rhetoric of professionalism to bolster their own position in public life. 6 Others have examined how the prejudice against women's artistry and creativity was at least brought into question (if by no means dismantled entirely) by events such as the unintentional admittance of Laura Herford to the Royal Academy schools in 1860, 7 or the defence of female composers mounted by Stephen S. Stratton in a paper delivered before the Musical Association in 1883.…”

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DEBATING FEMALE MUSICAL PROFESSIONALISM AND ARTISTRY IN THE BRITISH PRESS, c. 1820–1850

Kennerley¹

2015

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The entrance of women into the male-dominated spheres of the professions and the arts has been a major theme of women's and gender history in nineteenth-century Britain. In general, historians have located this development primarily in the second half of the century and depicted it as an important corollary to the political aims of the wider women's movement. In contrast, this article contends that an overlooked earlier context for the formation and emergence of ideas of female professionalism and artistry were the debates surrounding female singers in the press between c. 1820 and 1850. In this era, writers in newly emerging specialist music periodicals increasingly advocated a view of female singers as both professionals and artists. Such views did not dominate discourse, however. There remained a great deal of ambivalence even in specialist publications about just how far female singers should pursue the lifestyle of the professional artist, while in the mainstream press very different attitudes towards female singers prevailed. Although female musical professionalism and artistry therefore remained contested concepts, this article highlights the significance of these debates about female singers as an important source for the new ideas about women's professional and artistic work emerging in nineteenth-century British society.

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Power and the Professions in Britain 1700–1850

Cited by 261 publications

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The Communications Broker and the Public Sphere

The Communications Broker and the Public Sphere

Who were the urban gentry? Social elites in an English provincial town, c. 1680–1760

DEBATING FEMALE MUSICAL PROFESSIONALISM AND ARTISTRY IN THE BRITISH PRESS, c. 1820–1850

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