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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]

… Abstract The Grand Tour was a form of educational travel undertaken by young aristocratic and gentry men. Travel and separation from the home had long been an … of renewing and expanding elite British-Continental intergenerational connections.  Practices > Mobility Practices > Education Keywords Education Formation elite masculinity tourism Travel diplomacy academies Politeness Court Salon Cosmopolitanism …

Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]

… group, the Clapham Sect, to embark on crusades against poverty, the perverted manners of the Great, the ill-conceived education of women and the evils of slavery. She devised an original philanthropic model of sociability, a sociability of … People > Religion & Philanthropy Practices > Politics & Society Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Bluestocking Education Evangelicalism Friendship Manners Philanthropy Poverty Reformation Religion Slavery Women Wilberforce Hannah … her pen and her literary talents to promote four main causes, the reformation of manners, the abolition of slavery, the education of women and the alleviation of poverty. Having started as a provincial schoolteacher living in Bristol and …

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]

… expériences de sociabilité qui furent les siennes durant ses deux séjours en Angleterre. People > Aristocracy Keywords Education Correspondence French Revolution Travel writing emigration napoleonic era restoration Salons Memoires Mme de … de Locke et des œuvres de Shakespeare, Milton et Richardson, l’ English Review  déclare qu’il est : ‘the best system of education ever published in France’. 8   Adèle et Théodore  provoque en effet un engouement considérable : les  Plans of Education  (1792) de Clara Reeve s’en inspirent très ouvertement; 9  dans son  Ode to the Countess de Genlis  (1784), …

William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]

… pupils for a sociable life and imagined a sociable life after death. People > Art and Literature Keywords Picturesque Education Religion Unsociability Nature Philanthropy William Gilpin (1724-1804) was a clergyman, ordained deacon in 1746, … stressing the importance of the attitude at school (Gilpin, Letter-Writer , 133). In William Gilpin’s words, scholarly education is thus perceived as the means to learn social life and must be understood by young children. Teaching how to … girls – at Boldre (Gilpin,  Memoirs , 144) which he intended to be for the poor who would otherwise have no access to education and which, as he made sure in his will, 15   would survive him. However, in 1799, five years before his death, …

Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… outlawed. Despite those chequered fortunes they served as places for self-improvement for many men of limited formal education and provided forums for a broad part of the population, including women. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > … like marriage and courtship, with questions like: ‘Which is the more eligible for a wife, a lady of fortune without education, or a lady of education without fortune? ‘ 9 7 . Donna T. Andrew (ed.), London Debating Societies, 1776-1799, London Record Society 30 …

Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]

… sociability enabled female authors to tackle political issues, a field considered to be inappropriate in the education of eighteenth-century women. The revolutionary decade intensified the politicisation of sociability in travel … has clearly established the connections between the literary form and intersectional factors such as genre, class, education, ideology, and financial situation to understand the issues they addressed in their travel narratives and the … sociability enabled female authors to tackle political issues, a field considered to be inappropriate in the education of eighteenth-century women. The revolutionary decade intensified the politicisation of sociability in travel …