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Lord Byron [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… Abstract Cette notice explore les différents réseaux de sociabilité autour de la figure de Lord Byron dans les domaines artistique, sentimental et politique en retraçant les différentes étapes de son parcours à … instable. Les époux séparés, le jeune Byron est élevé par sa mère à Nottingham. En 1798, il hérite du titre de lord ainsi que d’un manoir vétuste dans le comté de Nottingham. Il poursuit ses études à Harrow, où il acquiert une …

Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… Club Brooks's Club British political circles Anglo-Irish identity Clubbability Duelling Edmund Burke Charles James Fox Lord Byron Richard Brinsley Sheridan was part of the late eighteenth-century London male-dominated world of English clubs. … Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal and Other Plays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p.lvi. For Lord Byron, Sheridan was the epitome of the London socializer: ‘In society I have met Sheridan frequently: he was superb! …

Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]

… gentry from St James’s, so that its importance was both sporting and social. It then moved to grounds given by Thomas Lord (hence the name of ‘Lord’s’). Originally called the White Conduit Club (because the players, who gathered at the Star and Garter Inn on Pall … by putting a fence around it. It had to move in 1864.   2 . The Star and Garter is also famous for the duel between Lord Byron (grand-uncle of the poet) and Mr. Chaworth, which was fought in a room of the Star and Garter, in January 1765. …

Germaine de Staël [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]

… déployer une activité infatigable ; en plus de se mettre en rapport avec des figures politiques de l’opposition  whig  (Lord Grey, Lord Holland, Whitbread et Tierney) comme du gouvernement  tory  et de négocier la publication chez John Murray de  De … Rentrée à Londres fin septembre, Staël y rencontre Robert Southey et Samuel Taylor Coleridge et y fréquente Lord Byron et Samuel Rogers, entrevues dont rendent compte le journal du premier et la correspondance du second (Balayé 373). …

James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]

… been his over-controlled, damnation-obsessed childhood in Edinburgh and on the family estate in Auchinleck. His father, Lord Auchinleck, a member of the Scottish Court of Session, whom he respected and feared in equal measure, was very much … his seeking out the acquaintance of the leading men of his time and attempting to be known socially with them. As Lord Macaulay put it in his scathing review of John Wilson Croker’s edition of the Life of Johnson in 1831: ‘He was … their company and was able to flirt as an amusement rather than as a preliminary to anything. He was by no means a Byron. He thus remained a welcome guest in many of the best social gatherings from the Northumberlands downwards, …

Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]

… into one of the great aristocratic families, he came from a well-to-do background. His father being private secretary to Lord North, George grew up playing with children of neighbouring aristocratic families, was sent to Eton, and spent … circle, with verse from a range of people, among them Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lord Erskine, Lord Byron, and Lord John Townshend. A darker aspect of his sociable interaction is that Brummell also had a reputation for …