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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
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Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… Walpole's correspondence, and authored two plays as well as historiographical works. She met a large number of literati, artists, and politicians and cultivated friendships with Walpole, the sculptor Anne Damer, and the playwright Joanna Baillie, documented through letters, which provided her with support. People > Art and Literature Keywords Bluestockings Correspondence Literature Travel Theatre Mary Berry (1763-1852) headed and participated in sociable circles in London and on the continent, was a scrupulous editor, a prolific writer, and an …
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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… ‘View of the Husting in Covent Garden’, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1222, 1806. Abstract Covent Garden lay at the heart of the eighteenth-century metropolis, beside the major route between the Court and aristocratic Westminster to the … Garden was also the place where the rowdy hustings for the Westminster elections occurred, inspiring many satirical artists. Places > Institutions Keywords Coffeehouses Commerce Market Prostitution Theatre Covent Garden is a square in … to the major thoroughfare to the commercial City of London, enhanced its importance as a site of sociability at the heart of the eighteenth-century metropolis. 1 Covent Garden’s social life was most obviously fuelled by the eponymous …
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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
Morality | Periodicals | Politeness | Print culture | Politics | Slavery | Theatre | Wit | Women
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… de Saint-Sauveur, 'Costumes de différents pays. Negresse et Femme Mulatre de St. Domingue', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.83.190.357, c.1797. Image Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, 'Costumes de différents pays. Nègre et négresse de St. Domingue', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.3.190.354, c.1797. Image 'Toussaint Louverture, Chef des noirs insurgés de Saint Domingue', Bibliothèque nationale … included animal sacrifice. The rituals sometimes took place in cemeteries that were abandoned by white people. Participants took a vow of secrecy, and despite the efforts of authorities to repress it, this form of slave sociability …
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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… of theatrical works between the two countries and in the evolution of eighteenth-century theatrical creation. People > Art and Literature Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Anglomania Correspondence France Friendship Theatre … Thérèse published two volumes of translated works entitled Nouveau Théâtre Anglais , featuring playwrights Edward Moore, Arthur Murphy, George Colman, and Hugh Kelly. 2 In 1776, inspired by her conversations with British friends visiting … his correspondence to London. In this narrative, Riccoboni takes shrewd advantage of her protagonist’s position as an impartial foreign observer to address certain philosophical and political issues. Riccoboni was a voracious reader of Samuel …
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The Play-bills, 1830 [ Practices ]
… the window of your coach, you would often see cause to pity it. However, not to dwell upon this point, or to make a sad article of one that is intended to be merry, on every Tatler which these poor people sell, they will get a half-penny. … we hope this will not have “ a mean sound,” except in the ears of the mean passions of pride and avarice. For our parts we affect to despise nothing that represents the food and raiment of mothers and children; though we often wonder … and so little upon the thousands they receive. —But we shall be stopping too long at the doors. If a play-goer has a party with him, especially ladies, the purchase of a bill gives him an opportunity of shewing how he consults their …
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