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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751, Dublin, Ireland – 7 July 1816, London, England) was an Irish-born British playwright, poet, politician, 'clubbable' orator and owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known … Rivals (1775 ),   The School for Scandal  (1777), The Critic (1779) or Pizarro (1799). He moved from the stage to the political arena and was a Whig MP for thirty-two years in the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806), … People > Politics People > Association Keywords London Theatres The Literary Club Brooks's Club British political circles Anglo-Irish identity Clubbability Duelling Edmund Burke Charles James Fox Lord Byron Richard Brinsley Sheridan …

Political Clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… Abstract This entry examines the political clubs of the French Revolution, focusing especially on the Jacobin Club. It explores the reasons why the clubs … of 1789. Later, they were active in getting the property of émigrés seized and auctioned off. In anti-revolutionary circles, these actions earned them the reputation of being ‘brigands’. During the radical phase of the Revolution … View PDF Cite this article WALTON Charles, "Political Clubs during the French Revolution", The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century [online], ISSN 2803-2845, Accessed on 01/30/2023, URL: …

Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]

… Charles Macklin, born Cathal MacLochlainn (1699?–1797)  exemplifies the Irish Enlightenment and successful access to British social circles, London theatres, Anglo-Irish debating and charitable societies. Moreover, he was eager to acquire a lasting … stage. He developed the capability for sustaining interest and passion in the theatre among his fellow actors and on the political stage thanks to his extensive reading and eloquence.  George Salisbury Shury, ‘Garrick in the Green Room’, …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… that sheds the most delicious flowers which grow on the path of life’ (H.M. Williams, Letters, 1790, 140  ) . This British author, who settled in Paris in 1792, contributed greatly to the circulation of ideas between France and England through her intellectual and political circles as well as through her publications. She was a tireless chronicler of social practices and historical events from …

William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… disaffected radical to Victorian sage, but also the events and changes that shaped his generation, and ultimately the British nation. At once a poet of the Lake District and, from 1843 onwards, the Poet Laureate, Wordsworth explored the … of sociability on both local and national levels. His engagement with public debates throughout his life highlights the political tension that informs Wordsworthian sociability, which is tied to notions of domesticity, community, and … of the 1790s, Wordsworth travelled to revolutionary France twice – in 1790 and 1791 – where he moved in revolutionary circles and came to embrace republicanism, which he later recorded in books VI and IX-X of The Prelude . When he returned …