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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 …

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

… 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 Italian diary was … to be published one day, but rather a writing exercise imposed by his father, anxious to offer his son the best possible education. The descriptions provided by the young Ramsay are often very synthetic, but nonetheless of particular … testimony to the importance of the practices of sociability of British travellers at the height of the Grand Tour, an educational journey which was no longer reserved only for the nobility. It is also one of the rarest testimonies because …

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), …

James Byres [ Travel ]

… social practices of the British Grand Tourists and artists who visited Rome.   People > Travel Keywords Grand Tour Italy Education Art networks Jacobitism The Scotsman James Byres lived for over thirty years in Rome, where he became one of … Grand Tour and, of all the Italian cities they visited, it was usually in Rome that travellers spent the most time. This educational journey, which sometimes lasted several years, was undertaken by young aristocratic and gentry men. The purpose of the Grand Tour was to complete the education of young travellers by helping them to develop social skills and polished manners thanks to their contact with …

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, …