Author: Rebecca Bullard

Rebecca Bullard is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Reading. She is the author of The Politics of Disclosure: Secret History Narratives, 1674-1725 (2009) and co-editor, with John McTague, of The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, volume 1 (2017). She has special interests in book history, eighteenth-century politics and life-writing -- including epitaphs.
Rebecca Bullard
Paper Wraps Stone: Monumental, Manuscript, and Printed Epitaphs in eighteenth-century England
Issue 1 Posted by Rebecca Bullard

John Le Neve (1679-1741), an English antiquarian who flourished in the first two decades of the eighteenth century, is best known for Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae. This hefty collection of biographies of clergymen, first published in 1716, became the foundation of a vast, multi-generational biographical project that continues to the present day.[1] By contrast, Le Neve’s next publication, Monumenta Anglicana,…

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