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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… of letters, was a Christian activist and philanthropist. Her sociable life in Britain’s major social centers, London and Bath, enabled her to use her closeness to the bluestocking circle and later her membership of the evangelical group, the … London to which she made regular trips after her prospects of marrying a wealthy squire failed to materialize, and Bath where the five More sisters bought a house on Great Pulteney Street and spent the winters of the 1790s. She led a … who managed to combine high spirits and seriousness in a blend similar to her own.’ (Demers, The World, 8) It is in Bath that she met William Wilberforce and that the two conceived a scheme to improve the condition of the Mendip …
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… only four would survive. As usual, she suppressed her grief, and tried to regain her health by sociable visits to Bath and Brighton. She added more attendees to her circle at Streatham, some of whom would rise to fame, or had already … but to alleviate Gabriele Piozzi’s annual sufferings from gout, they also spent at least a month per year socializing at Bath . Hester’s relationship with her surviving daughters remained fraught. An inveterate enemy whenever she felt … and exacting social skills on the part of the hostess. After her second husband’s death in 1809, Hester settled at Bath and once more became a member of the sociable throng, enjoying new friendships with actors in particular, and …
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Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… philosophy, and politics. John Craufurd, Gilbert Elliot, James Macdonald, Lord Robert Darcy, Lord Shelburne, Lord Bath, Charles James Fox, Charles Fitz Roy, David Hume , Edward Gibbon, and John Taaffe figured among her distinguished …
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William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… The recklessness of his prime youth was permanently curbed when, in 1797, he married Barbara Ann Spooner he had met in Bath . Marriage and friendship immediately found themselves at loggerheads, and Wilberforce was forced to reinvent his …
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Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
Conflict | Friendship | Gender | Sex | Women
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