… challenges our understanding of the benefits of sociability from this period. 1 . Spectator 10, 12 March 1711. In classical Latin solitudo was most often employed in a negative sense. It denoted a place or condition and thus a physical …
… to provide him with scenes for his novels, especially as regarded scenes among characters belonging to the highest classes of society, to which he himself – as a middle-class man – did not belong ( Correspondence , IV, 71). Very eager to receive help on scenes in high life, Richardson …