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Depicting beautiful women in the Eighteenth-century novel (2024)
Book Chapter
Aske, K. (2024). Depicting beautiful women in the Eighteenth-century novel. In J. Lipski, & M.-C. Newbould (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts (140-154). Edinburgh University Press

Samuel Richardson warned in his didactic novel Pamela (1740), ‘Be sure don’t let people’s telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make... Read More about Depicting beautiful women in the Eighteenth-century novel.

‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714). (2024)
Book Chapter
Aske, K. (2024). ‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714). In A. Ingram, H. Williams, & C. Lawlor (Eds.), Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (23–40). Manchester University Press

In 1711 Daniel Turner removed himself from the Barber-Surgeons Company and was admitted to licentiate by the Royal College of Physicians. Turner battled with his reputation as a surgeon and his new recognition as a physician, so with his first public... Read More about ‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714)..