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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… > Art and Literature People > Association Keywords Correspondence Cosmopolitanism Fiction France Freemasonry Republic of Letters Born on 18 October 1741 in Amiens to a recently ennobled family, Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos … that she might be exposed to. Implicitly revisiting the criticisms that Madame Riccoboni had levelled at him in a letter about Les liaisons dangereuses , Laclos drew attention to the instructive nature of novels and established a … recueillies dans une société, et publiées pour l’instruction de quelques autres ( Dangerous Connections: A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society ), which used …
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Duelling (1753) [ Practices ]
… of the vile practice of duelling." … Fiction … Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a series of letters published from the originals, by the editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In seven volumes. ... London, printed by S. …
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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
Correspondence | Emotions | Fiction | Friendship
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Clarissa, 1748 (2) [ Practices ]
… come up to tell you so !-But I persuaded him to the contrary- For I know not, what had become of you, if he had - Such a letter !- Such an insolent, such a conceited challenger !-O thou vain creature !-But prepare yourself, I say -Tomorrow … I beg, that as soon as you shall hear of such a violence, you will send to the usual place, to take back such of your letters, as may not have, reached my hands, or to fetch any of mine, that may be there. May you, my dear, be always …
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… the long eighteenth century contributed to the spread of the existing textual conventions and their transformation, with letters (a reading-writing form of communication) playing a vital role in familiarizing the growing audience with such … media like novels, biographies or newspapers and periodicals. See Rachel Scarborough King in Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2018). Various reading … works accumulated by wealthy individuals), its effects more often than not resonated in sociable interactions, such as letter writing, coffee house discussions or club meetings. In some cases, the shared social aspect of reading was so …
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Pickwick Papers (1836-37) [ Places ]
… of it,” said he. He died one morning of apoplexy, as he was going to open his outer door. Fell with his head in his own letter-box, and there he lay for eighteen months. Everybody thought he’d gone out of town.’ ‘And how was he found out at …
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Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
Dissent | Fiction | Friendship | Tories | Satire | Whigs
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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… of the Works of Jane Austen, general editor Janet Todd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005-8). 4 . See 'A letter to Anna Austen', 9-18 Sept. 1814, in Jane Austen’s Letters, ed. Deirdre Le Faye, 4th edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), I.287. Despite the social and economic …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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