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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… stages on which rising artists sought to deploy newly acquired social skills in their quest for custom and a fine reputation. Places > Sports & Leisure Places > Institutions Keywords Art Children Commerce Conversation Exhibitions … stages on which rising artists sought to deploy newly acquired social skills in their quest for custom and a fine reputation. … Belsey, Hugh, ‘Some Artists’ Studios in 1785’, Windows on that World. Essays on British Art Presented to …
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Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… individual’s identity, there was a genuine concern within the eighteenth-century advice literature about the damage to reputations that came from making friends with the wrong people. It was impressionable young men and women who were … have the same legal recourse as men and could not challenge an opponent to a duel if their honour was infringed, their reputation, as well as that of her family, kin, and other acquaintances, could be irreparable damaged if their private … deemed a murderess [...] if a slanderer, or a libertine, even by the most unpardonable falshoods, deprive you of either reputation or repose, you have no remedy.’ 12 . N. H., The Ladies Dictionary: Being a General Entertainment for the Fair …
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… and fellow soldier-writer Sir John Vanburgh, as well as to an extensive patronage network of Whig leaders. The club’s reputation for genteel sociability was enhanced by a series of portraits painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, including the … of the Public Sphere trans Thomas Burger with Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), p.27, 31. For all his reputation as a figure central to the moderating influence of The Spectator , Steele could also be a highly partisan …
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… Robinson and Elizabeth Drake Robinson, were well connected among the Yorkshire gentry, her father having gained a reputation as a wit in London coffee houses, besides excelling as an amateur painter of landscapes. The family later …
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Masonic brotherhood [ Rituals & Ceremonies / Associational culture ]
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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… made an apt use of this ‘frontier discourse’ 6 to reach out in the public sphere. Travel literature indeed enjoyed a reputation and a popularity as a ‘descriptive knowledge genre’ (Ferris 452) that required aesthetic and intellectual …
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… was socially mixed, British, urban, and Whig. 8 8 . As opposed to the landed elite and freeholders who had the reputation of being Tories. Essay periodical also defined commercial sociability in a broader sense that included moral …
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Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… becomes jealous and plots to seduce her friend’s lover, which causes Dalinda’s rage: Dalinda then ruins Philecta’s reputation through slandering, and the latter ends up exposed while pregnant with Dorimenus’s child. In the second, the …
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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]
… February 23rd, 1831 (Taunton: W. Bragg, 1831), pp. 90–6, 115–21, 124–5, 270–87. While eighteenth-century elections had a reputation for being rough-and-tumble, violence at the hustings reflected a serious breach of the unspoken contract of …
Dining | Elections | Public sphere | Tories | Whigs | Women
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