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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… John Brewer and J. H. Plumb (eds), The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (London: Europa, 1982), p. 34–99, p. 52. 2 . [Anon.], ‘Grub Street Journal’, in The Gentleman’s Magazine (11 February 1731, no. 58), p. 56–57. 3 . Oliver Goldsmith, The Life of Beau Nash (London: J. Newbery, 1762), p. 10. 4 . Jennie Batchelor, Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in … a season behind, at almost affordable prices. 5 . See Hannah Greig, The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 119. This was becoming a growing concern, and the first edition of The …
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Ascot [ Games & Sports / Sports & Leisure ]
… Image The Illustrated London News (London, vol. 2, Jan-Jun 1843, p. 438). Image James Smyth, Frederick, ‘Pic-nic Party, At Ascot Races’, The Illustrated London News (London, vol.1, Jan-Jun 1844, p. 368) Image James Pollard, ‘The Ascot Gold Cup’, 1834, WikiCommons. Image …
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… of intense sociability. Savvily located in the cultural and commercial capitals of the day (in particular Bath and London), they provided the material stages on which rising artists sought to deploy newly acquired social skills in their … with money and a desire for publicity commissioning their portraits, the business of Society portraitists thrived, with London serving as a magnet for those eager to bring their careers to a grand finale : Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), … 2 . Lucy Peter, ‘The Artist at Work’, in Anna Reynolds, Lucy Peter and Martin Clayton (eds.), Portrait of the Artist (London: Royal Collection Trust, 2016), p. 92-157. Reality often differed from such programmatic representations. In that …
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… licentious behaviour in the seventeenth century, it became a centre of mixed sex sociability, ranking just behind London, as a beacon of new social interaction. A city which started as a market town 5 evolved into a fashionable spa … Pump Room', Yale Center for British Art, B1975.3.53, 1798. 1 . See Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (London: Vintage, 1996), p. 381-398. 2 . Lawrence Klein considers that politeness was ‘a flexible device for … 6 . The number of British spas kept increasing: see Phyllis Hembry, The English Spa (1560-1815): A Social History (London: The Althone Press, 1990): over 138 spas were identified. 7 . The practice became widespread in Bath following the …
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… c.1778. National Library of Scotland, Lynedoch MSS 3590, f. 227R. 3 . Georgiana Cavendish, The Sylph, 2 Volumes (London, 1779), V. I, p. 189. The Connoisseur, a weekly London newspaper founded by George Colman the Elder, describes the gambler as one who ‘would ruin his own brother, if it … Aristocratic Vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 192. Julia’s initial enthusiasm hints at the joy of gambling as an escape from …
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Rules of Bath (1771) [ Practices ]
… … A new and complete geographical dictionary. By Frederic Watson, M.A. vicar of sutton, and several other gentlemen . London: Printed for the authors, and sold by G. Kearsly, No. 46, Fleet-Street, and all other booksellers in Great Britain … Kingston-Buildings. Sold also by all the other booksellers in Bath; and R. Baldwin, Bookseller, in Pater-Noster-Row, London (Bath), 1775, p. 24-25 ( full text in ECCO). … Rules of Bath (1771) …
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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… in the evening which could easily extend on to nighttime. The most famous pleasure gardens of the era were located in London ( Vauxhall , on the South Bank, or Ranelagh , in Chelsea), with other smaller but also frequently visited venues … Burney, Smollet). 3 . Hannah Greig, ‘’All Together and All Distinct’: Public Sociability and Social Exclusivity in London’s Pleasure Gardens 1740-1800’, Journal of British Studies (51, January 2012), p. 51. 4 . see Jonathan Conlin, ‘Vauxhall Revisited: The Afterlife of a London Pleasure Garden, 1770–1859’ Journal of British Studies (vol. 45, No. 4, October 2006), p. 718-743. Prints like the …
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