| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research focused on the life stories that eighteenth-century people in Britain were ready to offer both in fiction and in real life. It discussed their passion for writing down what they experienced, their desire to share the personal sentiments and their efforts to keep the records in good order. The sources it used included letters and journals in manuscripts. Among them it depended on what Georgiana, Lady Spencer wrote, received and kept. She was not a published author herself but a very educated and literary person, well-known for her charitable activities. Her charity was not institutional though well-organized by the help of capable staff. Her personal charity provided a place for unfortunate people to encounter the rich aristocrat via letters and to be judged if they deserved her attention and help. Retrospective life stories found their way in everyday life as well as in fiction, changing their styles and roles over the turn of the centuries.
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