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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]

… artists, Grand Tourists, ambassadors and even the King of Sweden. People > Travel People > Art and Literature Objects > Diaries & Letters Keywords Diaries Grand Tour Education Formation Italy Cosmopolitanism International Networks Art entertainment John Ramsay’s … which was no longer reserved only for the nobility. It is also one of the rarest testimonies because few Italian travel diaries written by such a young Grand Tour traveller have come down to us. Most often it is through correspondence with …

Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]

… and suggests that a different sociability existed between men than among women. People > Art and Literature Objects > Diaries & Letters Practices > Communication Keywords Diaries Gossip Gender Art Conventions Between 1978 and 1984, Yale University Press published a 16-volume edition of the … or force acceptance; but otherwise, gossip was a key form of intra group and boundary control (Merry 286).  Male diaries from the period suggest this was simply very different for men.  Farington’s Diary is an extraordinary resource …

Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]

… with his changing patterns of sociability across his life. People > Art and Literature People > Politics Keywords London Diaries navy kin Royal Society Tavern Coffeehouse Samuel Pepys’s impressive social rise, chronicled in his diary of the … with a wide range of Londoners, along with his changing patterns of sociability across his life. … London … Diaries … navy … kin … Royal Society … Tavern … Coffeehouse … Samuel Pepys …

Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]

… Abstract The many-volume publication of Frances Burney’s diaries and journals situates her as one of the leading chroniclers of eighteenth-century sociability. She participated … Frances Burney and the Arts (Cham, CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). … The many-volume publication of Frances Burney’s diaries and journals situates her as one of the leading chroniclers of eighteenth-century sociability. She participated …

Touch and sociability [ Communication ]

… of contact and relations, which clearly did exist but were much less subject to commentary in the novels, letters and diaries of the day.  And my aim is to help us grasp some of the complexities that lie behind Catherine Hutton’s evocative … her fortitude, or important the preservation of her character, she would be deemed a murderess.’ 12 . See The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread (ed.) (London: Virago, 2010) 13 . For some of the complexities of women’s … honour in eighteenth-century England’, Historical Journal (59 (1) March 2016), p. 71-97. Moreover, neither women’s diaries nor their letters were wholly candid about such matters. Revealing oneself and one’s humiliations in letters …

Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]

… such as those of Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth and Godwin are valuable records of Romantic sociable practices. Objects > Diaries & Letters Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Notebook Journal Mapping Conversation Conflictual sociability It …