18th Century

The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 to December 31, 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.
During the 18th century, the Enlightenment culminated in the French and American revolutions.

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Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4)
A Girl Called Samson
The Art of a Lie
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Revolution Trilogy, #2)
The Square of Sevens
The Last Witch of Scotland
The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
Pandora
The Bookseller of Inverness
The Glutton
That Bonesetter Woman
The Painter's Daughters
Candide
Gulliver’s Travels
Robinson Crusoe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Castle of Otranto
The Monk
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Evelina
Moll Flanders
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Räuber by Friedrich SchillerLove And Intrigue by Friedrich SchillerGötz von Berlichingen by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSturm und Drang by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Sturm und Drang
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Outlander by Diana GabaldonThe Raven Prince by Elizabeth HoytWicked Intentions by Elizabeth HoytThese Old Shades by Georgette HeyerDragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
The 18th century Romance List
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Admirals
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

Sophia Fermor
why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state. Why may she not be as capable of heading an army as a parliament; or of commanding at sea as of reigning at land? What shou'd hinder her from holding the helm of a fleet with the same safety and steadiness as that of a nation? And why may she not exercise her soldiers, draw up her troops in battle array, and divide her forces into battalions at land, squadrons at sea, &c. with the same pl ...more
Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man

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