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James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… too, the company of intelligent upper-class women in terms of sociability rather than for sexual pleasure. He was a depressive, often connected to his excessive drinking, which placed a limit on his capacity for sociability. People > Art and Literature Keywords Alcohol Depression Charm Manners Sex Boswell, who was born into a Scottish Presbyterian legal and landowning family in 1740, … the career training of his eldest son. As Boswell moved into late adolescence he became increasingly prone to bouts of depression, not helped by this insistence that he study law and enter the legal profession. He found some alleviation in …
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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… 7 . Sarah Richards, Eighteenth-Century Ceramics: Products for a Civilised Society (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999), pp. 105, 143. Share Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin Partager sur Twitter Partager par Email …
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Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), p. 9. See also Mark Girouard, Victorian Pubs (London: Studio Vista, 1975) and Peter Clark, The English …
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