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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 …

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 …

Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]

… he took up writing as an indispensable complement to it. His eclectic body of work paints the picture of a reformer, an educationalist in the Rousseauian tradition, a spare-time literary critic and an author of courtly poems, inspired by his … of the major themes explored in Laclos’s work, namely the pitfalls that await a young woman entering society without an education and without adequate knowledge of the dangers that she might be exposed to. Implicitly revisiting the … social codes and behaviour. The young Cécile becomes a pleasure machine in Valmont’s arms, a victim of a poor convent education and the blindness of a mother confined to reproducing outdated educational models. The Presidente de Tourvel, …

Voltaire (and his social networks) [ Association ]

… For Arouet’s father, the choice had been a strategic one: not only would his son receive a first-rate Jesuit education, he would also frequent the children of the most powerful people in the kingdom. It would prove a decisive … it would follow him throughout his years at the collège and into adulthood. Even so, Voltaire’s friendships and Jesuit education are likely what pushed him towards a worldly social life. By 1713, he was an increasingly frequent figure at …