http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/ EighteenthCenturyWorlds Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:34:01 GMT Ellen Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16144 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16144 Ah. Maybe I should just declare Uglow on Hogarth next! Thank you for telling me that she goes into this. Ellen [Non-text portions of this message have been Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:15:49 GMT Roblapides@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16143 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16143 As you know, Ellen, I'm not particularly expert in matters 18C, so it came as news to me that Fielding and Hogarth were friends and also shared a point of view Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:13:42 GMT Ellen Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16142 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16142 I'm into the second half of this long film and would like to suggest it's wrongly ignored. I think it's better than Richardson's. Richardson's is discussed as Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:44:24 GMT Ellen Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16141 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16141 Thank you very much for your thoughts on Schamma's book, Richard. I am particularly cheered to read a comment about the reading experience I agree with: "The Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:26:04 GMT Ellen Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16140 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16140 As listowner, I welcome queries. I am one of those who is not good at cyberspace (really), and not good at finding things -- even when simple. I also welcome Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:17:03 GMT Ellen Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16139 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16139 Dear Jerry, A further belated reply on Junius: it is as I thought, basically people are now persuaded Philip Francis was the man: The following is a footnote Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:59:52 GMT Ellen Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16138 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16138 Thank you for the succinct account and letting us know, Bob. I'd like to try it and gather Penny also got herself a copy. On three counts the subject is of Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:51:42 GMT Ellen Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16137 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16137 Dear all, Thinking people might be tired of stills from movies, I've switched to one of my favorite painters, Hubert Robert, for today his Hermit in a Garden Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:39:51 GMT Ellen Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16136 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16136 Again, I'm not summarizing these letters; I'm commenting on them for those who have read as thoughts I throw out to discuss or debate or elaborate. These are Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:30:39 GMT Ellen Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16135 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16135 It's _L'Anglaise et le Duc" translated as The Lady and The Duke, Penny: Brief account: I've seen a number of Rohmer movies because my husband loved these Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:00:31 GMT Roblapides@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16134 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16134 Hi Richard, Lin Piao probably meant it was too early to know how to judge the French Revolution's success and subsequent influence. Certainly, he had a point Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:47:40 GMT catherine.delors http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16133 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16133 You are right, Richard, Michelet also stops at Thermidor. Probably for reasons that are opposite (and parallel) to those of Schamma. Once Robespierre, his Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:05:14 GMT Richard Dolen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16132 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16132 Much obliged to hear others' reactions to "Citizens," because I'm reading it myself now, and am about one-quarter into it. Not to worry about the price, Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:32:38 GMT Penny klein http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16131 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16131 what film was that you saw, Linda? I seem to miss emails or perhaps it is my illness. But I do want to see a good French historical film. must get the Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:56:31 GMT Roblapides@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16130 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EighteenthCenturyWorlds/message/16130 I've now read about 340 pages or about half of Uglow's biography of Hogarth. As I said some days ago that I wasn't loving it, I thought I'd better let you