The history behind Bridgerton Season Two 🖋️📖 18th Century gossip & news culture | Claire Fenby

[@jamiedianne6778]

If you had a regular series called Geeking out about The 18th Century...I’m totally 👏here👏for👏it👏 This video just made me want to dive back in to 18th Cen. Lit and studies! Loved it. 👌

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you Jamie!! I’ve definitely got more videos like this planned ❤️

[@SpinstersLibrary]

This was fascinating! I'm currently wading through pages and pages of early 19th century women's magazines, which are just so wild. My favourites are the melodramatic stories that are dressed up as "letters to the editor" and "true accounts" - so much fun. I wish that aspect had been a bigger plot point in Bridgerton - the mystery of Lady Whistledown was one of the few things that kept me watching through all episodes. Do you have recommendations for books (academic or not) about print culture and/or coffee houses? The Hannah Greig book has gone straight onto my wishlist.

[@nicolemarcinawrites]

This was very informative. The regency genre is one of my favorites, and to know that stories like Bridgerton has a very interesting story behind it, it makes it even better ☺️

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you! I’m glad you found it informative 📚

[@Derezzination]

Hello please do more 18th century nerd videos it’s so hard to talk to people about that century without getting ‘oh is that like Jane Austen’ and then spending half an hour explaining Jane Austen’s relationship with the 18th century, her influences, her qualms etc actually that would be a good video looking at how Austen was influenced but then that’s also a thesis idea isn’t it could easily write a lot about that lol

[@Claire_Fenby]

Yes!! I definitely have more videos planned 📚

[@allison5234]

Claire, I absolutely loved this brilliant discussion. Do you have any books you’d recommend to read more about this? Also! We had a professor in undergrad teach a class all about coffeehouse culture which I unfortunately could not take but the course aimed to emulate some of that through coffee tastings and chocolate tastings and outings which is a fantastic way to teach that. Thank you for your hard work with this video. I’d love to see more of these.

[@jeanchampollin9906]

Such a rich history for the folks on other side of the ocean. Very informational I don't know much about about the eightieth century in England.

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you so much for watching Jean!

[@jeanchampollin9906]

​@@Claire_Fenby Your expertise in the subject is fun to watch over here in the states we barely touch on this area of history. Congratulations on the new job.

[@RoisinsReading]

I loved this video! Really want to find The Beau Monde after seeing it on your Instagram and you talking about it here! I know hardly anything about the 18th century (apart from its engagement with ancient Greece and Rome, in my classics degree I did a module on the use of classics through history which was fascinating) but its definitely an era I want to learn more about

[@Claire_Fenby]

I saw you picked up the Beau Monde! I really hope you enjoy it 📖

[@RoisinsReading]

@@Claire_Fenby thank you!

[@clarissas5651]

Brilliant video, Claire! I love hearing about the 18th century (I tend to read 19th and 20th century classics, so I’m less familiar with all this!). Would love more videos dealing with 18th century culture/18th century literature ❤️

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you! I definitely have quite a few video plans up my sleeve 📚

[@teresak2022]

Wow thanks for this amazing video Claire xx

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you for watching ❤️

[@bookish.bulletin]

Found this video extremely interesting. Looking forward to more similar content from you

[@Claire_Fenby]

Thank you!!

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

This was so interesting, thanks for sharing your expertise! I’m glad you enjoyed Bridgerton - I think I was the only person who got bored and switched off after two episodes 😂

[@Claire_Fenby]

The show definitely has A LOT of issues but it was good to binge watch! My friends at work had a very similar experience to you so you’re not alone ahaha ❤️

[@BookwormAdventureGirl]

This is so awesome. I'm happy to Geek out with you anytime. 😊💙

[@Claire_Fenby]

📚❤️

[@fauve2254]

I would love to see more videos about the eighteenth century! I loved your thoughts on print culture and Bridgerton. Have you heard of Frances Brooke's The Old Maid and Charlotte Lennox's The Lady's Museum? They're two mid-eighteenth-century periodicals by female writers that quite explicitly write back to the traditional "coffee-house" periodical tradition. They're also quite gossipy in tone and reflect on the role of women in print culture/periodical writing. I often had to think about them when watching Bridgerton and I think you might also find them interesting!

[@Claire_Fenby]

Yes!! I actually cut out a section on Charlotte Lennox as the video was way too long ahaha. Lennox is one of my favourite writers of the period along with Eliza Haywood.

[@MargaretPinard]

Ooh, I love learning about this layer! Thank you, Claire--real life is always harder to believe, no? 🤪

[@Claire_Fenby]

That’s so lovely to her Margaret! More geeky videos to come then ahaha ❤️

[@stephenconlon653]

The slave trade played a big part in life of the (18, Austen mentions it in Mansfield Park

[@Claire_Fenby]

A foundation of British history from day dot!

[@HERway-sk2mb]

👍👍

[@MargaretPinard]

Yes, I'd say the tweak of changing the content from political and philosophical debate among men to scandal among women...reflects what our current educated/elite choose to focus on today...

[@MargaretPinard]

Aw naw, they ranked the girls in print, just like high school boys?!? lol

[@Claire_Fenby]

Just like the Daily Mail 😂