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… West End, they fulfilled a wide range of functions (mail, banking, politics). Their crucial significance in various social circles could be best explained by the connections to other public places such as coffee-houses, taverns, markets … were amphibious businessmen, whose prosperity depended on their ability to liaise with customers from various social backgrounds (urban middle-sort, the national landed elites). Places > Cities Places > Trade Keywords Books … a changing social world, the inclusive and exclusive potential of bookshops and the extension of the booksellers’ social networks beyond the metropolis. 1 . Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk: Containing …

… Stothard (1755-1834) as well as the sculptor John Flaxman (1756-1826). Blake was an avid collector of prints; his early networks existed through print shops and auction rooms. On his father’s death in 1784, his older brother James took over … 8. All references are to volume one of Gilchrist’s biography. In the 1780s Blake developed his writing and, again, his social networks tie into his projects. Poetical Sketches (1783), a collection of juvenilia and only work to appear in … his wife Harriet Mathew (1743-1815), who hosted a literary salon and invited Blake on Flaxman’s recommendation. At these social gatherings Blake is reputed to have sung; Harriet Mathew, who was fascinated by Blake, gave him funds for the …

… increasingly racialised. Despite European ideas about the unifying tendency of sociability, divisions existed along social, racial and gender lines. Forms of sociability discussed include dance and voodoo on plantations; the culture of … Press, 2005), p. 24. Despite the barbarism of plantation life, the enslaved people of Saint Domingue found ways to socialise – some legal, others not. Enslaved people were in some cases authorised by their owners or managers to sell the … to visit friends or family, evade work or punishments, or extend holiday festivities. These maroons sometimes created networks of underground trade, exchanging foods and goods stolen from one plantation or town for those of others. 5  When …