The Digital Miscellanies Index: developing the public face of

digital resources

Dr Abigail Williams, St Peter’s College, University of

Oxford

Illustration in title pages of Laugh and Be Fat

‘A Father Reading to his Family by Candlelight’, engraved by Thomas Cook (1744-1818) frontispiece to a book pub. by John Marshall & Co., 1783 (engraving)

Miscellanies in performance• Places – Yorkshire, Shoreditch

• Themes – sport

Authors – Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen

Collections – Bodleian, Chawton house library

Site specific – taking music home to Richmond

Taking miscellanies to the Geffrye museum of the home: parlour of 1745

Domestic performance

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