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On Conversation (1756) [ Concepts ]
… in the street, and paying their compliments with the same volubility of speech, the same grimace and action, as two courtiers on the Thuilleries. I shall not attempt to lay down any particular rules for conversation, but rather point out …
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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… a menagerie was, in eighteenth-century England, a collection of captive exotic animals kept by aristocratic and royal courts for attesting their power and wealth. Such a place of social interaction fostered the encounter between members of …
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… birds, antelopes, lions, monkeys and porcupines were exhibited at Joshua Brookes’s menagerie at the end of Tottenham Court Road. Between 1757 and 1758, Georgian Londoners could go to the Talbot Inn on the Strand in order to behold Mr … turquerie deeply influenced different social spaces and practices. With the arrival of Ottoman embassies at the courts of Europe, the lure of the Turkish style was attracting members from royalty and aristocracy who used to attend …
Animals | Australia | Chinoiserie | Collecting | Commerce | Exoticism | Menageries | North America
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Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… on the hunt at Meynell’s Quorndon Hall observed that the company on a field day ‘go out with as much ceremony as to court, their hair always being dressed’. 2 And the post-hunt socialising was no less glamorous: the start of the Quorn’s …
Animals | Elite | Hunting | Sports | Women
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