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William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… throughout his life highlights the political tension that informs Wordsworthian sociability, which is tied to notions of domesticity, community, and nation-building. People > Art and Literature Keywords Solitude French Revolution Domesticity Politics Napoleon Poet Laureate In a letter of 27 October 1818 to Richard Woodhouse, John Keats famously … Mary Hutchinson, whom he married in 1802, stood for his new-found stability as much as for moral and political values. Domesticity moreover highlights the numerous connections that Wordsworth fostered from his home at Grasmere, and later at …

Sugar [ Food & Drink ]

… pamphlets, satirical prints, petitions, and objects. Objects > Food & Drink Keywords Consumer culture Tea Tea-table Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Boycott Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the mid-seventeenth century, became … Asian Leaf that Conquered the World (London: Reaktion, 2015), p. 87. 10 . Karen Harvey, ‘Barbarity in a Teacup? Punch, Domesticity and Gender in the Eighteenth Century‘, Journal of Design History (vol. 21, no. 3, 2008), p. 205-221. … Eighteenth-Century England , 4 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010). Harvey, Karen, ‘ Barbarity in a Teacup? Punch, Domesticity and Gender in the Eighteenth Century ‘ , Journal of Design History (vol. 21, n° 3, 2008), p. 205-221. …

Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]

… Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Practices > Eating & Drinking Keywords Tea Tea-table Polite sociability Public sphere Domesticity Conversation Gossip The tea-table is an object, an event, and an idea: that is to say, it is at once an item … Coulton, and Matthew Mauger, Empire of Tea (London: Reaktion, 2015). Harvey, Karen, ‘Barbarity in a Teacup? Punch, Domesticity and Gender in the Eighteenth Century’, Journal of Design History (vol. 21, n° 3, 2008), p. 205-221. Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, ‘Tea, Gender, and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century England’, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (vol. 23, 1994), p. 131-145. Martin, …

Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]

… the eye of the rapacious gamester. Objects > Sports & Gaming accessories Keywords Games Gambling Furniture Cards Playing Domesticity Playing games was a crucial aspect of daily sociability especially among the aristocracy and the middle … each participant is a prey in the eye of the rapacious gamester. … Games … Gambling … Furniture … Cards … Playing … Domesticity … Gaming table …

Wallpapers [ Furniture & Interior decoration ]

… hill, notamment pour recréer un univers gothique. Objects > Furniture & Interior decoration Keywords Fashion Pattern Domesticity Magazine Gothic Conversation Correspondence France À l'origine de l'expansion du papier peint au 18e siècle, … considérable des papiers peints à Strawberry hill, notamment pour recréer un univers gothique. … Fashion … Pattern … Domesticity … Magazine … Gothic … Conversation … Correspondence … France … Wallpapers …

Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]

… Bulstrode as the happy seat of what turned out to be a companionate marriage spreading the new light of rational domesticity. The Duke and Duchess valued interesting company, and the Bulstrode circle may well have influenced Elizabeth …