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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]

… but he was certainly not friendless. Although his work received little public recognition during his lifetime, his close circle of friends in England strove to defend his genius and preserve his memory for posterity. Friendship was always … coteries on his development as a poet and thinker. People > Art and Literature Keywords British romanticism poetry Leigh Hunt Hunt circle literary correspondence Friendship ‘The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn,’ writes John Keats (1795-1821), …

Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]

… Abstract Hunting had been the foremost recreation of British kings, nobles and elites since the middle ages, but  the hunting of the fox had traditionally been held in low esteem.  Foxes were vermin and so lacked the status that had made … Marchioness of Salisbury continued hunting until her seventieth year, and her death in 1836 was much lamented in hunting circles. 8   Doubtless, however, such women were very much the exception to the rule.  Melton Mowbray, the heartland of …

Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]

… was perhaps the best-known salon hostess during the second half of the eighteenth century. She was a towering figure in circles promoting literary sociability, and a respected literary critic after her publication of an essay on Shakespeare … Bluestocking Millennium’, in Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg (eds), Reconsidering the Bluestockings (San Marino: Huntington Library, 2003), p. 175-192, p.178. 3 . Sylvia Harcstack Myers, The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and … the novelist Sarah Scott, Montagu confessed, ‘ I don’t see how a sociable Being can live without writing ‘ , and the Huntington Library now holds some 6,923 letters and manuscripts left by Montagu and her correspondents , which are …

Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]

… toward a golden age through his network of radical thinkers, including the members of the Lunar Society but also the circle of Joseph Johnson in London, struggling for abolitionism and social reforms. People > Science People > Art and … of Nature was originally entitled The Progress of Society and aimed to show the fives ages of sociability: the Age of Hunting, the Age of Pasturage, the Age of Agriculture, the Age of Commerce (which was characterized by ‘luxury’ and … 2 . David Erdman (ed.), The Progress of Society, by Erasmus Darwin, electronic edition. 18 April 2021, https://romantic-circles.org/editions/darwin_temple/progress/progress.html Darwin was also a member of Joseph Johnson’s more informal …

Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]

… members of every social stratum participated in this fashionable pastime. Society theatre was as prized in aristocratic circles as it was in bourgeois homes. The originality of this practice lay in its break with the production methods of … Fréron 4   described a day in the life of the duc d’Orléans, with the performance of a comedy organised following a hunt. The two activities were of a rank in terms of entertainment, both part of the essential panoply of distractions for …

Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]

… around factual matters, while allowing individuals to retain their private opinions as to interpretation. Beyond the circle of those immediately present, ‘virtual witnesses’ were recruited by the publication of written accounts of … University Press, 1992), p. 123. The effects of static electricity were among the phenomena translated from the circles of scientific virtuosi to a wider audience. Desaguliers and the dyer Stephen Gray were among those who showed … (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 75-94. 17 . Jan Golinski, ‘Sublime Astronomy: The Eidouranion of Adam Walker and His Sons,’ Huntington Library Quarterly 80 (2017), pp. 135-157. Share Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin Partager sur …