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… of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 1st series (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), vol. 3, p. 409; The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs Paget Toynbee, 16 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903), vol. 3, February 12, 1756, p. … A. Selwyn would put it, ‘a small society governed England and gambled in St James’s Street’. 18 18 . George Selwyn, his Letters and his Life, ed. E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899, p. 19. Share Partager sur … West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Muralt, Béat-Louis (de), Letters Describing the Character and Customs of the English and French Nations (London: T. Edlin, 1726). Rendell, Jane, ‘ …
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Horace Walpole (and the English garden) [ Art and Literature / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… de Strawberry Hill (Lannion: Travaux d'Investigation et de Recherche, 2020). Haggerty, George, E., Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century (Lewisburg [Pa.]: Bucknell University Press, 2011). Harney, … Jardins romanesques au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Saint James's (1756) Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) To Horace Walpole (1773) Strawberry-hill (1774) To Mary Berry (1795) … Par la richesse de … de Strawberry Hill (Lannion: Travaux d'Investigation et de Recherche, 2020). Haggerty, George, E., Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century (Lewisburg [Pa.]: Bucknell University Press, 2011). Harney, …
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
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Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… needle cases or purses were frequent participants in the traffic of pocket-sized keepsakes between women. In a tender letter to her close friend Jane Pollard dated 1788, Dorothy Wordsworth writes: 7 . Edward Twitchell Hall, The Hidden … got the handkerchief in my pocket that you made and marked for me, I have just this moment pull’d it out to admire the letters. Oh! Jane! It is a valuable handkerchief. […] Adieu my love, do not forget to send me a piece of hair.’ 8 8 . William & Dorothy Wordsworth, The Early Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (1787-1805), ed. Ernest de Sélincourt [1935] (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), …
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
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Wallpapers [ Furniture & Interior decoration ]
… yellow paper and prints, framed in a new manner invented by Lord Cardigan, that is, with black and white borders.’ The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford (Philadelphia: Lean and Blanchard, 1842), vol. 2, p. 171. 5 . Emile de Bruijn, …
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