Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… Image Henry Rumsey Forster, The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland (London: David Bogue, 1852). Abstract In the eighteenth century, portable directories were key instruments of sociability … reference books, which provided a snapshot of their ancestors, alliances and children. Whether it be during the London Season or in the provincial daily life, sociability was strongly shaped by the knowledge of family links and … their wealth or to maintain their pre-eminence, they had to circulate in the larger public spheres in the provinces, in London and in the colonies. Whether old or new, landed families required portable gateways to navigate and to be seen in …
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