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Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) [ Concepts ]
Commerce | Refinement | Luxury | Charity | Corruption | Democracy | Disorder | Happiness
Anthology
Pickwick Papers (1836-37) [ Places ]
… doors, and a green curtain inside; a pretty useless thing for him, for he had no papers to put in it; and as to his clothes, he carried them about with him, and that wasn’t very hard work, either. Well, he had moved in all his …
Fiction | Inn
Anthology
Phaeton [ Transport ]
… driver performs to others his bravery and daring, skill and agility and the female phaeton driver displays her fine clothes. Austen , in Pride and Prejudice (1813), gave the sickly Anne de Bourgh a ‘little phaeton and ponies’ to drive … St. James’s Palace. 7 By the eighteenth century, London’s beau monde paraded along this lit track dressed in their best clothes, riding in their ornate carriages, and meeting one another out in their carriages and speaking to passers-by. At … coat reflects elite men’s rejection, in the later eighteenth century, of magnificent dress for plainer, simpler clothes. 8 Onslow, lacking the full equipage of coachmen and grooms, blurs the distinction between master and servant, …
Animals | Courtship | Elite
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… the extreme cleanliness. One of their best customs is that they wear a chemise, underpants and a vest underneath their clothes. A wealthy man will change his underwear several times a week. In doing so, they attempt to prevent vermin from … very poor are free from fleas or any other such creatures.ʼ (al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris , 225-226) W ith regard to the clothes worn by the French, his observer’s gaze betrays the amazement of someone who came from a traditionalist society, …
Dress | Europe | France | Theatre | Travel
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Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… right sits a ballad seller, someone who usually brings cheer and fosters convivial singing. He seems to have pawned his clothes and starved himself to feed his gin addiction and is now insensible, if not actually dead. In the centre sprawls … two-year-old child, Mary, from the Workhouse in Bethnal Green. She persuaded her to sell this poor little girl’s new clothes. Accordingly, they stripped her naked, strangled her and threw her in a ditch. Once they had sold the clothes for 16 d., they split the money and spent some of it on gin. Defour then went to work at 7 o’clock that evening …
Alcohol | Crime | Friendship | Poverty
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Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… Evening Post , they refused to consider him as their own: When he appeared in the morning in an old well-worn suit of clothes, they could not help calling him Peter Pamphlet; for the generous patron of Scotch authors, with his city wife …
Books | Commerce | Reading
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