Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… enable Grand Tourists and their families to continue consolidating and expanding on their continental socio-political networks. A typical starting point for attaining the skills was to attend an academy. Initially founded by … For writers and thinkers, travel and the sociability therein acted as an important means of expanding professional networks and becoming part of the republic of letters. In 1764, for example, Adam Smith resigned his chair of Moral … during the Eighteenth Century’, in Hilary Brown and Gilliam Dow (eds.), Readers, Writers, Salonnières: Female Networks in Europe, 1700–1900 (New York: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 23-24, 26. 11 . Elaine Chalus, ‘Spaces of Sociability in …
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