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… Image ‘The Petticoat Duellists [Two ladies duelling with pistols]’, Wellcome Collection, 568670i, 1792. Abstract Friendship held an important place in the long eighteenth century. But one of the major challenges of everyday life was … or treatises explicitly dealt with the subject of enmity, but it was always a central feature of the literature on friendship from this period, which contained abundant warnings about the perils of false friendship. The deepest enmities resulted from the closest friendships. Yet the candour and honesty of enemies had …

… of human character and social sympathy . People > Art and Literature Keywords Affection Benevolence Conversation Family Friendship Imagination Patriotism Science Sympathy Coleridge’s childhood: parental love and education The youngest in a … after. For the poet, this early uprooting from his family environment accounted for his later ‘[c]hasing chance-started friendships’: 1 . Richard Holmes, Coleridge : Early Visions, 1772-1804 (New-York: Harper Perennial, 2005), p. 18. 2 . E. … Too soon transplanted, ere my soul had fix’d Its first domestic loves; and hence through life Chasing chance-started friendships.’ 3 3 . S.T. Coleridge, ‘To the Rev. George Coleridge’, The Complete Poetical Works. Vol. 1, ed. Ernest …

… Practices > Politics & Society Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Bluestockings Charity Education Evangelicalism Friendship Manners Philanthropy Poverty Reformation Religion Slavery Women Hannah More (1745-1833), who was one of the … whom she quickly became a protégée . It is undoubtedly her status as a playwright that enabled her to strike a lifelong friendship with David Garrick and his wife Eva and to lionize Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole . What has been called … as part of the second generation of bluestockings she helped maintain it in the limelight. Even in the case of her friendship with Wilberforce, it is literature that brought them together and he acted as literary adviser. ‘ Barley Wood …

… gatherings and through her literary works. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Bluestockings Commerce Friendship Italy Literature Politics Born into a Welsh family proud of its ancestry, Hester Lynch Salusbury spent most of … such a splash. Frances, an inveterate diarist, would chronicle many of the debates at Streatham, and provided a female friendship that filled a gap in Hester Thrale’s so far male-dominated life. 6  Hester later added Helen Maria Williams … visitors and writers such as Samuel Rogers as well as the novelists Harriet and Sophia Lee. She formed a lifelong friendship with the great actress, Sarah Siddons, and even tried her hand at playwriting but neither of her attempts ever …