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Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]

… Abstract The Republic of Letters was an abstract intellectual community in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century that was comprised of numerous … and philosophical manuscripts, and political news and pamphlets. But the erudite epistolary backbone of the Republic of Letters was also enriched by networks grounded in institutions. These included scholarly networks created by the … and masonic lodges. Concepts > National & Transnational cultures Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Republic of Letters Correspondence networks academies Transnational Community Voltaire The Republic of Letters was both an abstract …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… country it is social pleasure that sheds the most delicious flowers which grow on the path of life’ (H.M. Williams, Letters, 1790, 140  ) . This British author, who settled in Paris in 1792, contributed greatly to the circulation of … 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 … first chronicle of events across the Channel dates to this trip. This first volume was followed by seven more, forming Letters from France (1790-1796), which was published in London by T. Cadell (then G. G. and J. Robinson). 1 The first …

Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]

… qualities of the heart and mind. People > Art and Literature Keywords Samuel Richardson Writing and reading practices Letter Epistolary sociability Friendship Sentiment Heart and mind Although Samuel Richardson was a reserved, taciturn man … him to promote sociability through the creation of a society of writers and readers. For one thing, in his Familiar Letters 1 , he gave his readers practical advice on how to become a sociable people and behave as such, what company to … might enjoy the pleasures of conversation. For another thing, the interplay takes place between real and fictional letters as Richardson’s three novels are – partly in the case of Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded , and wholly in the case of …

David Hume [ Philosophy ]

… ̶  he belonged to diverse clubs and societies in Scotland and London, then at Hume’s participation in the Republic of Letters, and finally at philosophy as the practice of sociability. People > Philosophy Keywords Philosophy Clubs Societies Salons Scottish Enlightenment Edinburgh London Paris Republic of Letters essay David Hume’s original position in eighteenth-century letters is linked to a paradox: he was both a marginal character (Scottish rather than English, British rather than …

Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]

… London as well as in the country . People > Aristocracy People > Art and Literature Keywords Bluestockings Conversation Letters Parties Drums London Politics Born in 1719, Frances Evelyn Glanville was a distant relative of diarist John … to exert a form of social politics in the manner described by Elaine Chalus: 1 . Admiral’s Wife: Being the Life and Letters of The Hon. Mrs. Edward Boscawen from 1719-1761, ed. Cecil Aspinall-Oglander (London, New York, Toronto: … if you do not approve that which I have displayed in Audley Street’ (Aspinall-Oglander, I, 129). To be polite, the letter continues, she had invited his brother as well as a member of Parliament, Sir Charles Frederick, and his wife to …