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… of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 1st series (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), vol. 3, p. 409; The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs Paget Toynbee, 16 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903), vol. 3, February 12, 1756, p. … A. Selwyn would put it, ‘a small society governed England and gambled in St James’s Street’. 18 18 . George Selwyn, his Letters and his Life, ed. E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899, p. 19. Share Partager sur … West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Muralt, Béat-Louis (de), Letters Describing the Character and Customs of the English and French Nations (London: T. Edlin, 1726). Rendell, Jane, ‘ …
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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… Bath au XVIIIe siècle. Les fastes d’une cité palladienne (Rennes: PUR, 2000). Leffever, Rowland, professional gambler, 'letters to Richard ('Beau') Nash re gambling debts', 1752-1761 (Acc 662). Bath and North East Somerset Record Office. … Bath au XVIIIe siècle. Les fastes d’une cité palladienne (Rennes: PUR, 2000). Leffever, Rowland, professional gambler, 'letters to Richard ('Beau') Nash re gambling debts', 1752-1761 (Acc 662). Bath and North East Somerset Record Office. …
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Horace Walpole (and the English garden) [ Art and Literature / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… de Strawberry Hill (Lannion: Travaux d'Investigation et de Recherche, 2020). Haggerty, George, E., Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century (Lewisburg [Pa.]: Bucknell University Press, 2011). Harney, … de Strawberry Hill (Lannion: Travaux d'Investigation et de Recherche, 2020). Haggerty, George, E., Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century (Lewisburg [Pa.]: Bucknell University Press, 2011). Harney, …
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… , and ‘the queen of watering-places’ became the playing field of opposed forces, both centrifugal and centripetal. In letters and in fiction, Bath could be celebrated for its sociability or conversely lambasted for the poor quality of its … Reaktion Books, 1995), p. 57: ‘sterility’ was perceived as a ‘social disease.’ 10 . Alain Kerhervé has shown the role of letters in the circulation of spa gossip between friends: ‘Writing Letters from Georgian Spas: The Impressions of a Few English Ladies,’ in Annick Cossic and Patrick Galliou (eds.), Spas …
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… emotion to the object which acts as a material embodiment of their mutual affection: 3 . Lady Mary Campbell Coke, The Letters and Journals of Lady Mary Coke , vol. 2 (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889), p. 116-137. ‘About three days ago Mr. …
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