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… North and William Legge, 2 nd earl of Dartmouth. 12 To them, he wrote that he and his wife longed to welcome them in England: ‘You are the favourites, & will continue so’. 13 North, in particular, fulfilled the potential that Newcastle … in 1756, George Simon Harcourt was surprised to hear ‘[Henry Herbert, 10 th earl of] Pembroke has so good a character in England, for his Lordship, was rather famed for excesses of all kinds abroad than for any other thing’. 14 Pembroke … Further Reading Ayres, P., Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Bohls, Elizabeth, Women Travel Writers and the Language of …
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… E. Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness: Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 76-80. Shaftesbury even erected a so-called … (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2000), p. 61-78. Klein, Lawrence E., 'The Figure of France: The Politics of Sociability in England, 1660-1715', Yale French Studies (vol. 92, 1997), p. 30-45. Lobis, Seth, ‘ `Moral Magic´: Cambridge Platonism … and the Third Earl of Shaftesbury ’ , The Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015), p. 198-255. Müller, Patrick (ed.), New Ages, New Opinions: …
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Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]
… Society, 1662. 2 . John Evelyn to John Beale, 27 July 1670, quoted by Michael Hunter, Science and Society in Restoration England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 44. 3 . Michael Hunter, Science and Society in Restoration England, chapter two (he also refers to it as a ‘corporate experiment’, p. 38); Michael Hunter, Establishing the New … were returned to the Royal Society when he died. 10 . Steven Shapin, ‘The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-century England’, in Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If it was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, …
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Stefan Zanović [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
… , whose lover he became. News of the couple’s exploits and flamboyant lifestyle was followed with great interest in England and throughout Europe. Because of Zanović’s acquaintances on the one hand, and the Duchess’ acquaintances on the … , whose lover he became. News of the couple’s exploits and flamboyant lifestyle was followed with great interest in England and throughout Europe. Because of Zanović’s acquaintances on the one hand, and the Duchess’ acquaintances on the …
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… II, Duc d’Orléans, who was to appoint him as his private secretary (for many, Laclos was the éminence grise), led him to England on a diplomatic mission. Finding that his military career did not fulfil his ambitions for glory, he took up … the Palais-Royal. He also played a particularly active role in the Club des Jacobins (which he joined on his return from England in October 1790) as founder and editor of the Journal des Amis de la Constitution . Following the Champs-de-Mars … opportunity of a Franco-British political alliance, which was not to come to fruition until the following century. In England, Laclos developed the idea of a constitutional monarchy to replace French absolutism. 4 . Mémoires du comte …
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Wallpapers [ Furniture & Interior decoration ]
… Image ‘Imitation ‘Print Room’ wallpaper, hung in Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire, , England, colour woodblock print on paper’, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museum no. E.747.1914., about 1760. … dans la décoration domestique. Image Legend ‘Imitation ‘Print Room’ wallpaper, hung in Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire, , England, colour woodblock print on paper’, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museum no. E.747.1914., about 1760. …
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… of relegating the presence of Indigenous peoples to the distant past, which has been studied with great insight in New England by Jean O’Brien in Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England (Minneapolis MN and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Ballston Spa and Saratoga Springs both had …
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Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
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Diplomats in London (1660-1714) [ Politics / Travel ]
… in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey (dirs.), Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England (Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press, 2002), p. 169-78. 8 . Mémoire de Ronquillo au secrétaire d’État, le 7 mai …
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