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What did eighteenth-century men want? - Professor Amanda Vickery

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Such is the gloom that surrounds settling down today and the glamour that attaches to mature bachelor freedom, it is hard to imagine that there was a time when marriage represented the summit of a young man's hopes.

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'In all ranks and all stations of life, how strangely do characters and manners differ! Lord Orville, with a politeness which knows no intermission, and makes no distinction, is as unassuming and modest as if he had never mixed with the great, and was totally ignorant of every qualification he possesses; this other lord, though lavish of compliments and fine speeches, seems to me an entire stranger to real good-breeding...'

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Never can I consent to have this dear and timid girl brought forward to the notice of the world by such a method; a method which will subject her to all the impertinence of curiosity, the sneers of conjecture, and the stings of ridicule.

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Never can I consent to have this dear and timid girl brought forward to the notice of the world by such a method; a method which will subject her to all the impertinence of curiosity, the sneers of conjecture, and the stings of ridicule.

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'It has always been agreed," said Mrs. Selwyn, looking round her with the utmost contempt, "that no man ought to be connected with a woman whose understanding is superior to his own. Now I very much fear, that to accommodate all this good company, according to such a rule, would be utterly impracticable, unless we should chuse subjects from Swift's hospital of idiots'.

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Though gentleness and modesty are the peculiar attributes of your sex, yet fortitude and firmness, when occasion demands them, are virtues as noble and as becoming in women as in men: the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travellers.

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Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

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Alas, my child, the artfulness of your nature, and the simplicity of your education, alike unfit you for the thorny paths of the great and busy world.

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“Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.”

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'But, really, I think there ought to be a book of the laws and customs à-la-mode, presented to all young people upon their first introduction into public company'.

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Novels

Evelina, or, The History of a young Lady's Entrance into the World

Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth,

Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress

The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties

Plays

A Busy Day

Edwy and Elgiva,

Diaries and Letters

Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay,

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Link to In our Time - Frances Burney

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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the 18th-century novelist, playwright and diarist Fanny Burney, also known as Madame D'Arblay and Frances Burney. Her first novel, Evelina, was published anonymously and caused a sensation, attracting the admiration of many eminent contemporaries.

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1752 – 1840

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from the British made-for-tv biopic Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006), dir. Philippa Lowthorpe.

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James Purefoy - Beau Brummell (2006) - Getting dressed - Sublime!

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Beau Brummell (James Purefoy), 18th century London fashion trend-setter gets dressed while Prince Regent/Prince of Wales (Hugh Bonnevile) looks on. Kinky? Yes, no, maybe? You decide! But put me in JPs dressing room any day!

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By the end of the session you will be able to give at least two examples of how Frances Burney depicts ‘good’ and ‘bad’ men in the texts.

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To examine eighteenth-century men ans ideas of masculinity.