Glynis Ridley
Biographic Data
| ID | 6114227 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glynis Ridley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glynis |
| FAMILY NAME | Ridley |
| SIGNATURE | RIDLEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Biographies in the Album
Is it possible to use an album's contents to construct a narrative about the interpersonal relationships between those who signed and dated their transcriptions? A flea-market purchase of an album bearing poetry transcriptions in multiple hands, all signing from 1824 to 1827, and most from a single Dublin address, made me curious about the album's creator, Thomasina Newcomen, and the circumstances surrounding the creation of her album. In tracing…
One of a Kind
In 1741, a Dutch sea captain succeeded in transporting a live female Indian rhino calf from north-east India to his home town of Leiden. Named “Clara,” she was only the fifth Indian rhinoceros to be seen on European soil since the fall of the Roman empire and the only rhinoceros on the continent in the mid-eighteenth century. From 1741 to 1758, Douwemout Van der Meer displayed Clara across Europe to commoners and kings. In 1751, Van der Meer took…
Making the Perfect Woman
Losing America and Finding Australia
Research Article| September 01 2002 Losing America and Finding Australia: Continental Shift in an Enlightenment Paradigm Glynis Ridley Glynis Ridley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 202–224. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-26-3-202 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Ico…
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Losing America and Finding Australia
Research Article| September 01 2002 Losing America and Finding Australia: Continental Shift in an Enlightenment Paradigm Glynis Ridley Glynis Ridley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 202–224. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-26-3-202 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Ico…
Making the Perfect Woman
One of a Kind
In 1741, a Dutch sea captain succeeded in transporting a live female Indian rhino calf from north-east India to his home town of Leiden. Named “Clara,” she was only the fifth Indian rhinoceros to be seen on European soil since the fall of the Roman empire and the only rhinoceros on the continent in the mid-eighteenth century. From 1741 to 1758, Douwemout Van der Meer displayed Clara across Europe to commoners and kings. In 1751, Van der Meer took…
Biographies in the Album
Is it possible to use an album's contents to construct a narrative about the interpersonal relationships between those who signed and dated their transcriptions? A flea-market purchase of an album bearing poetry transcriptions in multiple hands, all signing from 1824 to 1827, and most from a single Dublin address, made me curious about the album's creator, Thomasina Newcomen, and the circumstances surrounding the creation of her album. In tracing…
Art (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Australian History and Society (1 works)