Glaisyer, Natasha orcid.org/0000-0002-9313-3325 (2019) Calculation and Conjuring:John Molesworth and the Lottery in late eighteenth-century Britain. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. pp. 135-155. ISSN 1754-0208
Abstract
Throughout the 1770s John Molesworth repeatedly, spectacularly and notoriously offered for sale tickets in the British state lotteries that he claimed were more likely than others to win prizes. In this article I tell his story and explore how he defended his claim against attacks that it was ‘absurd’ and an ‘imposition’, and how he persuaded adventurers in the lottery to purchase his tickets. He drew on a wide range of knowledge-making and trust-promoting techniques from natural philosophical, corporate and legal contexts, but at the heart of the strategy was his own status as a gentleman.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | Advertising,John Molesworth,London,Lottery,Print culture,Probability |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2018 08:50 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 14:51 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12593 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1754-0208.12593 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:134845 |
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