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The Connoisseur 82 (1755) [ Practices ]
… the reach of reflection. I would, therefore, entreat you by all means to avoid an habit, which will at once ruin your health, and impair your intellects. It is a misfortune, that society should be esteemed dull and insipid without the …
Drinking | Women | Rake | Gaming | Gentleman
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… senior, wealthy and well-connected Edward Montagu. The couple had one son who died in infancy. Montagu suffered from ill health (mostly called ‘nervous’ and occasionally ‘bilious’) and spent part of almost every year at Tunbridge Wells taking …
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Friendship | Women
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… is the day of meeting'. (Newport, vol. 1, 83) Although several gatherings had to be cancelled because of Swift’s health, they were still regular in March and April 1733, so that Mary Pendarves started to enjoy them in spite of Swift’s …
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Correspondence | Court | Ireland | Propriety | Women
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… and dignity of all the other parts, and exhibits their affections as in a Glass. For from it are not only taken signs of health, diseases, and imminent death; but also most clear tokens of the very disposition, manners and affections of the …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]
… of the former can be found in the societal response to the Regency Crisis of 1788. The breakdown of George III’s mental health in November 1788 precipitated months of fierce political manoeuvring. The animosity and political divisions that …
Dining | Elections | Public sphere | Tories | Whigs | Women
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… parties, card-playing, the central role of the tea-table , and a conversation where books 5 – they could be exchanged – health matters and politics featured prominently. More enjoyed these social occasions and wrote: ‘ I dined at the Adelphi …
Bluestockings | Charity | Education | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Manners | Philanthropy | Poverty | Reformation | Religion | Slavery | Women
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Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… the fact that only Lady Kaye was out hunting – her companions Lady Suffield and Mrs Villiers being kept indoors by ill health and other commitments. Perhaps most celebrated of all was the Marchioness of Salisbury, who acted as master of …
Animals | Elite | Hunting | Sports | Women
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