100 Actual Titles of Real Eighteenth-Century Novels

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http://the-toast.net/2014/08/06/100-actual-titles-real-eighteenth-century-novels/

Due to poll option limit, have selected 50 at random to include in the poll :(

Poll Results

OptionVotes
The History Of A Dog. Written By Himself, And Published By A Gentleman Of His Acquaintance. Translated From The French. 2
The Adventures Of An Irish Smock, Interspersed With Whimsical Anecdotes Of A Nankeen Pair Of Breeches. 2
The Adventures Of An Ostrich Feather Of Quality. 2
Flim-Flams! Or, The Life And Errors Of My Uncle, And The Amours Of My Aunt! With Illustrations And Obscurities, By Mess 2
Secrets In Every Mansion. 1
Prodigious!!! 1
The Polish Bandit; Or, Who Is My Bride? 1
Papa Brick; Or, What Is Death? 1
No One Obliged To Cry. 1
Who’s The Murderer? 1
The Mysterious Pregnancy. 1
A Modern Anecdote Of The Ancient Family Of The Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns. 1
Odd Enough, To Be Sure! 0
The Peaceful Villa, An Eventful Tale. 0
The Nunnery For Coquettes. 0
The Question, Who Is Anna? 0
Realities, Not A Novel. A Tale From Real Life. 0
Reft Rob; Or, The Witch Of Scot-Muir, Commonly Called Madge The Snoover. 0
Wine And Walnuts. 0
Who Is The Bridegroom? Or, Nuptial Discoveries. 0
Who Can He Be, Or, Who Is His Father? 0
What D’ye Think Of The World? 0
’Twas Wrong To Marry Him. 0
The Travels Of Hildebrand Bowman, Esquire, Into Carnovirria, Taupiniera, Olfactaria, And Audinante, In New-Zealand; And 0
“There Is A Secret, Find It Out!” 0
The Spectres, Or, Lord Oswald And Lady Rosa, Including An Account Of The Marchioness Of Cevetti Who Was Basely Consigne 0
The Sacred Deposit. 0
The News-Paper Wedding; Or, An Advertisement For A Husband. 0
Mystery Upon Mystery. 0
Good Men Of Modern Date. A Satirical Tale. 0
The Freebooter Of The Alps. 0
The Fault Was All His Own. In A Series Of Letters. By A Lady. 0
The Expedition Of Little Pickle; Or, The Pretty Plotter. 0
The Egg, Or The Memoirs Of Gregory Giddy, Esq: With The Lucubrations Of Messrs. Francis Flimsy, Frederick Florid, And B 0
But Which? 0
The Book!! Or, Procrastinated Memoirs. 0
The Bachelor’s Journal, Inscribed (Without Permission) To The Girls Of England. 0
The Advantages Of Education. A Tale For Misses And Their Mammas. 0
Hesitation; Or, To Marry, Or, Not To Marry? 0
He’s Always In The Way. 0
Modern Seduction, Or Innocence Betrayed: Consisting Of Several Histories Of The Principal Magdalens, Received Into That 0
Matrimony, The Height Of Bliss, Or The Extreme Of Misery. 0
Married Life; Or, Faults On All Sides. 0
Love And Madness. A Story Too True. In A Series Of Letters Between Parties Whose Names Would Perhaps Be Mentioned Were 0
The Libertines; Or, Monkish Mysteries! 0
The Laughable Adventures Of Charles And Lisette; Or, The Beards. 0
I’ll Consider It! 0
It Was Me, A Tale By Me, One Who Cares For Nothing Or Nobody. 0
Home. A Novel. Expect Not A Story Deck’d In The Garb Of Fancy,—But Look At Home. 0
A Novel Of Novel Kind—An Evening’s Amusement For Yourself And Friends, At Which Every One Is Invited To Laugh, But 0


heck (silby), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:42 (ten years ago)

Some great would-be Guided by Voices titles in here.

MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:48 (ten years ago)

If Aphex Twin had released an album in the 18th century, this is what the song titles would have been like.

I only listen to Vantablack Metal (snoball), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:48 (ten years ago)

The popularity of Tristam Shandy may explain the manic whimsicality of some of these titles.

Aimless, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:58 (ten years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/47/Police_squad_in_colour.jpg/250px-Police_squad_in_colour.jpg
"A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)"
"Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)"
"The Butler Did It (A Bird in the Hand)"
"Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi)"
"Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)"
"Testimony of Evil (Dead Men Don't Laugh)"

I only listen to Vantablack Metal (snoball), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:08 (ten years ago)

find it curious that the dog wrote in French

heck (silby), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:09 (ten years ago)

not to get hung up on too-neat century periodisation or anything but quite a few of these are early nineteenth century.

woof, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:24 (ten years ago)

No One Obliged To Cry.

this one made me laugh quite extensively. voted

imago, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:31 (ten years ago)

that said there's a lot of 'methinks' crossover here & basically lol @ those wacky georgians eh

imago, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:32 (ten years ago)

actually I think no-one obliged to cry is actually the end of the previous title in the list when I copied it, and listed as a separate option here due to stray newlines. still a good title though

heck (silby), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:49 (ten years ago)

actually actually

heck (silby), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:50 (ten years ago)

haha it figures that the best title here would be an accidental truncation; self-promoting novelists of the age didn't seem to relish ambiguity

imago, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:54 (ten years ago)

The Mysterious Pregnancy.

example (crüt), Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:57 (ten years ago)

Papa Brick, or What Is Death?

Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:01 (ten years ago)

"It Was Me, A Tale By Me, One Who Cares For Nothing Or Nobody."

Alternate title for the Morrissey autobiography

Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:03 (ten years ago)

The Adventures Of An Ostrich Feather Of Quality

cardamon, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:18 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 15 September 2014 00:01 (ten years ago)

system doesn't give the 1-day heads-up eh

imago, Monday, 15 September 2014 00:02 (ten years ago)

"Atrocities of a Convent" wuz robbed

Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Monday, 15 September 2014 00:19 (ten years ago)

fp'd System

B.L.A.P. (rip van wanko), Monday, 15 September 2014 00:54 (ten years ago)

No One Obliged To Cry.

this one made me laugh quite extensively. voted

The actual title is "A Novel Of Novel Kind—An Evening’s Amusement For Yourself And Friends, At Which Every One Is Invited To Laugh, But No One Obliged To Cry."

but it broke across two lines on The Toast's list and heck accidentally made it two titles.

Alba, Monday, 15 September 2014 01:21 (ten years ago)

Actually, I don't even think that's the full title. I think the full title is "Sympathy In Search Of Peace At Home: A Novel Of A Novel Kind—a Tale Of The Times, From Carlton House To The Poorhouse—an Evening's Amusement For Yourself And Friends, At Which Every One Is Invited To Laugh, But No One Obliged To Cry. "

http://www.british-fiction.cf.ac.uk/titleDetails.asp?title=1821A036

Alba, Monday, 15 September 2014 01:23 (ten years ago)


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