A History of Solitude. David Vincent

      113 113. Abraham Cowley, ‘Of Solitude’, in Abraham Cowley, Poetry & Prose (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1949), 80.

      114 114. Cowley, ‘Of Solitude’, 80.

      115 115. Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy: A Rural Poem (London: Vernor and Hood, 1800), 31.

      116 116. Vincent, Privacy, 10–13, 48, 65–6.

      117 117. Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964), 4.

      118 118. Philip Koch, Solitude: A Philosophical Encounter (Chicago: Open Court, 1994), 101.

      119 119. Senechal, Republic of Noise, xv.

      120 120. Cohen, Solitary Action, 2.

      121 121. For instance, Richard Holt, Sport and the British: A Modern History (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1990); Robert W. Malcolmson, Popular Recreations in English Society 1700–1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973); Andrew Davies, Leisure, Gender and Poverty (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992).

      122 122. See, for instance, the biographical account of the well-known pedestrian Mr Foster Powell in The Sporting Magazine (October 1792): 7–15. The periodical later carried an extract from Zimmermann’s Solitude, referring to Sabbath practices in Louis XV’s court: (April 1794): 5.

      123 123. Nineteenth-century reprints were usually based on the shorter, French translation by J. B. Mercier, which omitted many of the critical comments on solitude.

      124 124. ‘D’Egville’ was presumably named after James Harvey D’Egville (c.1770–c.1836), a well-known dancer and choreographer.

      125 125. The Era, 30 March 1845.