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Casanova in London (1763) [ People ]
… it admirably. “Then fetch a violin player,” said Lady Harrington, “that we may have the pleasure of witnessing the young artist’s performance.” The ball had not yet begun, and as soon as the violinist appeared, I stepped forward and danced … son to everybody, but the poor lad looked like a victim, and did nothing but make profound bows. I pitied him from my heart. As soon as I got home I went to bed and spent the whole of the next day there. The day after I went to the “Staven … my name." … Assemblies … Music … Women … Taken from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seinga lt, 1725-1798. Transl. by Arthur Machen. London: Elek Books, 1894, vol. 5, chap. 8. Full text from Project Guntenberg. … Casanova in London (1763) …
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The Kit-Cats (1708) [ Practices ]
… condescends to honour Kit-Cats Name, Whose Pride, like thine, O Rome, from small Beginnings came. Oh thou! who Chief Art to the Muses dear, Whom Poets Court, and Statesmen love or fear: Who with an uncontroul'd, Despotic Sway, Dost still … of State. In Pleasure here they pass the wearing Night, And the hard Labours oi the Day recite; They tell how bravely Artop Silence broke, And how much like an Angel Oran spoke; How some young Orators new come from School, Mounted the Rope, and danc'd without a Pole. What wretched Speeches t'other Party made, How weak, and how insipid things were said By all their leading Men, but by their own What Miracles of …
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Image Henrietta Ward, 'The Queens Lodge, Windsor, in 1786', 1872, Walker Art Gallery. Image Mary Delany by John Opie, NPG 1030. Abstract Mary Delany (1700-1788) has remained famous for her correspondence and her flower collages. Her life also provides a perfect illustration of a woman seeking participation to collective activity and court, all the while relying on her sense of propriety to adapt to new sociable circles or to organize her own assemblies. People > Art and Literature Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Assemblies Bluestockings Correspondence Court Ireland Propriety …
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… criticism of the dramatist. Affluent and generous, she set her own stamp on fashionable London society. People > Art and Literature Keywords Assemblies Bluestockings Conversation Correspondence Friendship Women The fourth child of … valued interesting company, and the Bulstrode circle may well have influenced Elizabeth Montagu’s own decision to start a literary salon afterwards. Witty, lively, and good-looking, Elizabeth Robinson had many suitors, and in 1742, aged … who died in infancy. Montagu suffered from ill health (mostly called ‘nervous’ and occasionally ‘bilious’) and spent part of almost every year at Tunbridge Wells taking the waters. There, where friendships could be begun – and dropped – …
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Philadelphia Dancing Assembly records, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Am.3075 folio, 1772 and 1785. Image ‘Young Martha and George Washington’, Library of Congress, Popular and applied graphic art prints, PAGA 7, no. 3431, 1904. Image The Subscribers of the City Dancing Assembly’, United States Gazette … desideratum. Founded in 1749, the Assembly thrived, even into the early Federal period. Rules governing all aspects of participation, including the dancing itself, sustained the Assembly’s role in determining class status and creating social …
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Street’, York Museums Trust, YORAG: R1482, 1759. Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘A Master of the Ceremonies Introducing a Partner’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 59.533.500, 1795. Abstract In the long eighteenth century, assembly rooms became an established institution in … growing in number over the course of the ‘century’. Assembly rooms across Great Britain became the physical and social heart of the community, places where men and women could meet to converse, dance, and attend lectures and concerts. Despite …
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Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]
… are, I shall endeavour to give you some idea what one is. These assemblies are always in the principal apartment [383] of the palace, which is generally on the second, but sometimes on the third floor. It is not always perfectly easy to find this apartment, because it sometimes happens that the staircase is very ill lighted. On entering the hall, where the footmen of … is a greater number of men than women; no lady comes without a gentleman to hand her. This gentleman, who acts the part of Cavaliero Servente, may be her relation in any degree, or her lover, or both. It is allowed him to be connected …
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Parish churches [ Institutions ]
… by the author. Abstract Parish churches have provided key places of sociability from the Middle Ages to the present. Particularly in premodern times, when attendance was expected if not mandatory, they accommodated members of both sexes, … forms of religious, social, cultural and political sociability focused on parish churches, not just in its European heartlands but many colonial contexts, too. 2 . Beat Kümin, The Communal Age in Western Europe c. 1100-1800: Towns, … held on Sundays and major feasts, supplemented by catechism classes for younger parishioners (for frequencies and participation see the visitation returns for Devon parishes in 1744 and 1779). Religious gatherings symbolized Christian …
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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… 1809. Image Thomas Rowlandson, 'Dressing for a Masquerade', Met Museum, 59.533.2047, April 1, 1790. Image William Hogarth, 'Masquerades and Operas', Met Museum, 32.35(80), 1724. Abstract Masquerades – sociable assemblies of masked participants – developed into forms of public entertainment in eighteenth-century London, often welcoming crowds in the … Although it was considerably expensive – Kobza (170) has estimated the lowest possible cost of masquerade participation (including ticket and costume) at 10 shillings – it offered a space of carnivalesque class disorder and …
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