… the next milestone. Lord Clifden is returned from Ireland, and has been three days at his uncle's, but he and the silent woman and the old bittern are gone to Ramsgate for two months. I am sorry, for my lord is very agreeable. The Archbishop …
… them with wit, or with softness, or very good sense. Madame Geoffrin, of whom you have heard much, is an extraordinary woman, with more commo n sense than I almost ever met with. Great quickness in discovering characters, penetration in …
… Charles-Jean-François Hénault, who shared her love of repartee and sociability. The marquise du Deffand was a spirited woman with a sharp tongue. She presided over the salon she established in 1747 from her tonneau (a great hood chair), … wrote in 1766 to his friend, the poet Thomas Gray, he chronicles the multifaceted sociability of an active elderly woman with a busy social calendar. Madame du Deffand […] is now very old and stone blind, but retains all her vivacity, …
… pour un perroquet!' 'But, added Lord Edgecumbe, to Lord Ashm—'last Night the Dog was Carried—only think how horrid!—by a woman, in a Handkerchief, instead of a Gentleman in his Hat! Now, my Lord, was not that enough to put any singer out of …
… that drew its vitality from the vast literary and theatrical production of both countries. Riccoboni was not a woman of the salons—she was a woman of letters who found, in the epistolary dialogue, the perfect complement to the art of conversation. Though she was …
Anglomania | Correspondence | France | Friendship | Theatre
… of a wife happy in that point – in your public character. [...] I cannot but reflect with indignation how much ‘tis in a woman’s power to distress a brave or learned man amongst his own society and friends, at his table and round his domestic … them during the past Summers who have now suffer’d & been put to death on the Scaffold. A Duchesse de Biron, a charming Woman: a Comtesse the Bouflers, la Comtesse Emilie de Bouflers, sa belle Fille, & then a whole Family of Montboisier who …
Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Politics | Women
… but it leads him to his death since he is killed when trying to enter a convent in which he wanted to meet the young woman he was trying to seduce. Once again, it was not his nature, he was enticed by a friend to follow the young woman (Gilpin, Letter-Writer , 61). Among the other bad habits identified in company, many men swear (17, 127, 131) and …
… novelist’s work took up one of the major themes explored in Laclos’s work, namely the pitfalls that await a young woman entering society without an education and without adequate knowledge of the dangers that she might be exposed to. …
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