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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… as well as through her publications. She was a tireless chronicler of social practices and historical events from the Revolution to the Restoration. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) showed … American Revolution ( An American Tale , 1786) and, after learning about the absolutist policies of the Bourbons from a French couple who had been victims of that regime, for the French Revolution ( Julia , 1790). With their rights …

Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]

… Abstract This entry deals with female travel narratives to the Continent, with a focus on those written during the revolutionary decade (1789-1800). It aims to show how sociability – sociable practices, culture, values – was a key topic … up with the nature and form of the government. Practices > Reading & Writing Practices > Mobility Keywords Women Travel French Revolution travelogue wollstonecraft montagu beaumont biggs Williams In her preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s … la Fédération held on 14 July 1790, a spectacular representation of revolutionary sociability designed to celebrate the French people’s social regeneration. Her narrative is an attempt to describe the creation of new natural sociable bonds …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… public meetings, and political dinners. A description of the contested reputation of taverns in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Places > Food & Drink venues Keywords Tavern Sex trade Prostitution Public meeting French Revolution Radicalism Taverns provided important locations for middle-class male convivial gathering in …

William Wordsworth, the Worldly Recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… which is tied to notions of domesticity, community, and nation-building. People > Art and Literature Keywords Solitude French Revolution Domesticity Politics Napoleon Poet Laureate In a letter of 27 October 1818 to Richard Woodhouse, John Keats … Britain: he wrote, but did not publish, the vitriolic Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793), in which he defended the French Revolution in the wake of the Terror; in the same year, he wrote Adventures on Salisbury Plain , a poem of social …

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

… all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He was a Freemason and regular visitor to the clubs and salons of the revolutionary period. Finding his military career unrewarding, he became politically active alongside Philippe d’Orléans … Le Dantec and Claude Pichois (Paris: nrf-Gallimard, 1961), p. 642. Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations from French sources have been translated into English. Laclos was initiated into Freemasonry in 1765 by L’Union , his … formed, and freemasonry was a widespread custom among the military. The Duc took the name Philippe-Égalité during the French Revolution, and the Palais-Royal became not just his headquarters but also a leading social space. Freemasons with …

Arab discovery of European sociability [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… mission to Europe. al-Tahtāwī accompanied, as spiritual guide, a group of forty-four students sent to Paris to learn the French language, military techniques and other relevant subjects. He remained in Paris for five years (1826-1831), documenting all aspects of French society and sociability discovered during his stay, such as food, eating and drinking habits, housing, clothing, … Clearly, he was among the first Arabs, together with the Lebanese Butrus al-Bustānī (1819-1883), 14 to support a revolutionary position for those times: the access to education for women. His views on female emancipation were …