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… played in developing not just knowledge but the mind and critical judgement. As late eighteeth-century woman of letters Hester Chapone observed, 'it is almost impossible that an evening should pass in mutual endeavours to entertain … pp. 42, 46. 10 . [Mary Wray], The Ladies Library [1722] (London: Jacob Tonson), pp. 12, 16. 11 . Joseph Spence, 'Letters from The Grand Tour 1730 1741', in Slava Klima (ed.) Joseph Spence: Letters from The Grand Tour, (London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975), p. 9-10. Even the acquisition of knowledge …
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