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  • 2 - The Young Englishman

  • from Part I - Growing up English
  • Catherine Hall, University College London
  • Book:
    Lucky Valley
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    22 February 2024, pp 65-84

  • Summary

    The Young Englishman’, Edward, aged nineteen, arrived in London destined for the law. Living as a student on a meagre allowance, he observed London society from its fringes and began to write a periodical and fiction for publication. He was greatly influenced by the debates over taste and its civilizing effects. The Seven Years War mobilized patriotism, anti-French feeling and reflections on the distinctive characteristics of Englishness. Faced with the untimely death of his father in 1757 and the news of his modest inheritance, the advice Edward received was to head for Jamaica where he might hope to secure a fortune.