Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… at her marital home, 14 South Audley Street. H er parties are thus likely to have entertained a different crowd: elite fashionability and political clout were more important than literature or the arts. After having been widowed, however, … public days was one of the socio-political duties of the summer for women from politically active aristocratic families, fashionable women in London often opened their homes on designated days or evenings during the parliamentary season. 3 3 … to the Oxford English Dictionary, a drum was ‘A social gathering held at a private house, attended by people from fashionable society’ (www.oed.com, s.v. ‘drum, n° 3’). 5 . See, for instance, Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman …
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