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Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… consumer of fashionable entertainment. She went to plays, the opera, masquerades, attended assemblies, went to play at cards, bought lottery tickets and regularly took part in raffles. Her appetite for these pleasures entailed much … knick-knacks meant to accessorize fashionable sociability such as a set of natty portable ‘fashionable conversation cards’ advertised in 1791 which gave women appropriate conversational cues in both French and English for drawing-room … was targeted by an ever encroaching market keen to harness any business opportunity. 4 . Such a pack of conversation cards was advertised in The World (Wednesday 14th December 1791) together with the pocketbook promising the one thousand …
Dress | Fashion | Friendship | Gaming | Women
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Correspondence | Court | Ireland | Propriety | Women
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
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Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… seems to have turned increasingly to her bluestocking friends and ‘rational’ entertainments, favouring conversation over cards. His will had left her a prosperous widow, and she continued to keep a hospitable dinner table (Climenson, I, 230). …
Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Politics | Women
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