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Ranelagh Advertisements (May 1769) [ Places / Practices ]
Masquerade | Music | Taverns | Coffeehouses | Advertisement | Entertainement
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Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
… of entertainment which flourished in the eighteenth century, where, for an entrance fee, the inhabitants could meet, dance and listen to music, attend shows, and have refreshments. They were on the outskirts of cities, offering both city … higher price. Masquerades were given for special occasions such as the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749, with disguised dancers in the alleys, music played from a boat on the canal, and shops selling wares from various countries; another …
Advertisement | Chinoiserie | Entertainement | Exoticism | Luxury | Masquerade | Pleasure gardens | Politeness
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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… negotiated through a sociable performance of anonymity and new ‘selves’ in the traditions of Locke and Hume. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Assemblies Masquerade In eighteenth-century London, the … in London in 1759. Cornelys’s assemblies were yet more restrictive in terms of admission, with considerably higher attendance costs (Kobza 170): the closed space of her house at Soho square supported her agenda of organising elite …
Assemblies | Masquerade
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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