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Journal entry (1779) [ Practices / People ]
… Parsons except as an old Buffoon – He said Mr Cumberland in revenge had already attacked the School for Scandal & other pieces of Sheridan in a Prologue he has written to Massinger’s revived play of the Duke of Milan …
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Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
Art | Conventions | Diaries | Gender | Gossip
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… 1965), p. 174-178. Laclos’s interest in English culture was primarily literary. In 1784, two years after the succès de scandale of Les liaisons dangereuses , he published a review of Frances Burney ’s Cecilia or Memoirs of an Heiress in the … era that stressed the importance of sociable exchange while remaining mindful of its perils. The novel’s succès de scandale, which was fuelled by indignation at the potential models represented by the two libertines at the plot’s centre …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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Masonic brotherhood [ Rituals & Ceremonies / Associational culture ]
… of a Lodge must be good and true Men, free-born, and of mature and discreet Age, no Bondmen no Women, no immoral or scandalous men, but of good Report’. En 1738, la deuxième édition des Constitutions s’intéresse non plus seulement au … féminine est plus forte encore et demeure aujourd’hui le plus souvent la règle : ‘no Bondmen no Women, no immoral or scandalous men, but of good Report’. Lorsque des sœurs britanniques sont admises au XVIII e siècle, leur nombre est très …
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On Attending the Church Service (1771) [ Practices ]
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
Blasphemy | Clubs | Masculinity | Sex
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
Catholicism | Celebrity | Correspondence | Enmity | Friendship | Poetry
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