Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… Image Joshua Reynolds, ‘Elizabeth Hamilton [née Gunning], Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll’, Yale Center for British Art, B1977.14.68, c. 1760. Abstract This entry explores the conceptualisation of female beauty in Britain in the long eighteenth century. The period, particularly around the mid-century, saw a surge of discourses on beauty, establishing aesthetic, moral, and social … Aesthetics Beauty Conduct Femininity Manners Women ‘Female beauty’, wrote Oliver Goldsmith in An History of the Earth (1776), ‘is always seen to improve about the age of puberty; but, if we should attempt to define in what this …
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