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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… participants – developed into forms of public entertainment in eighteenth-century London, often welcoming crowds in the fashionable centres of the metropolis, such as the Haymarket Theatre, Vauxhall Gardens or Ranelagh Gardens. The practice … Fictions by Women (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993). Greig , Hannah, The Beau Monde : Fashionable Society in Georgian London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) Munns, Jessica and Penny Richards … participants – developed into forms of public entertainment in eighteenth-century London, often welcoming crowds in the fashionable centres of the metropolis, such as the Haymarket Theatre, Vauxhall Gardens or Ranelagh Gardens. The practice …
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Spas [ Health ]
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… an essay on Shakespeare refuting Voltaire’s criticism of the dramatist. Affluent and generous, she set her own stamp on fashionable London society. People > Art and Literature Keywords Assemblies Bluestockings Conversation Correspondence … Street in London and her country estate, Sandleford in Berkshire, then, in 1781, she had a new house built for her in fashionable Portman Square which would serve as a representative basis for her already famous literary salons. Along with … the Montagus’ house in Hill Street, London, which turned into evening assemblies by the 1760s, and were later staged at fashionable Portland Square in 1781, moving into a house Montagu had herself commissioned after her husband’s death in …
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Friendship | Women
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
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