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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Wells, a provincial phenomenon that spurred the development of assembly rooms across Great Britain and the wider British empire. 1 In their most basic form, assemblies promoted the mixing of polite strata in Georgian society, from the …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… conservative stance may explain why she refused to go to Paris . 13 Williams stopped writing political works during the Empire, a period of strong censorship. It was not until the fall of Napoleon that British visitors were able to return to … to the salonnière Madame Helvétius, whom she regularly visited in Auteuil ( Sketches , letter 37) . In her works on the Empire, Williams expressed her contempt for the etiquette established at the Tuileries court, in particular criticising …
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