EBRO Review Archives

Something there is that loves a garden, to adapt a line from Frost’s "Mending Wall," and The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art provides ample proof of such love.

In this examination of sources Yvonne Fuentes explores the Spanish response to the French Revolution in printed and archival texts during the decades following the 1789 storming of the Bastille.

Daniel Defoe believed firmly in the existence of spirits, apparitions, and the invisible world. However, could he, without help from the spiritual world, validate all of the anonymous writings attributed to him today? Could we trust him to list his actual works honestly and accurately?

This book attempts to bring to life a second-rank figure--physician and author James Welwood (1652-1727)--and to use his biography as a device to guide the general reader through the changes in British politics, religion, society and medicine from the Restoration to the reign of George I.

Approximately one half of Rafia Zafar’s book is devoted to persuasive readings of texts produced during the long eighteenth century by Mary Rowlandson, Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Hanson, John Marrant, Joel Barlow, Ann Eliza Bleeker, and Olaudah Equiano.

Jacques Zonneveld’s chronological study of the life and literary contributions of Sir Brooke Boothby represents an arduously documented account, from his family lineage and birth in 1744 to his death in financial exile in 1824.

Lisa Zunshine’s study provides an engaging and cogent account of the figures of the bastard and the foundling in eighteenth-century literature.

The institution of Freemasonry has inspired awe, respect, fear, mistrust, suspicion and a whole host of other reactions throughout its long history.

From the day she ascended the Russian throne under suspicious circumstances in 1762, Catherine the Great has held an abiding fascination for the British.

George Romney long has been considered the third most important portrait painter practicing in London during the second half of the eighteenth century.

In 1675 the Parisian seamstresses’ guild was born under the ministry of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who was eager to foster textile industry in France. Tailors had a monopoly on men’s articles of dress and formal court wear for men and women, while women already worked extensively as seamstresses.

Historians of eighteenth-century France, especially students of that nation’s legal and social history, will welcome this important study by Anthony Crubaugh of civil justice in the Aunis and Saintonge regions of southwestern France (the modern Département of the Charente-Maritime).