Curatorial labour, voice and legacy: Mary Dorothy George and the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, 1930–54*.

Between 1930 and 1954 Mary Dorothy George wrote catalogue entries for 12,553 'Golden Age' satirical prints, entries that have become foundational to the historiography of British History in the long eighteenth century. This article examines George as a curatorial voice, an interlocutor between the a...

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Publicado en:Historical Research Vol. 93; no. 262; pp. 769 - 786
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Nov2020
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