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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]

… Places > Food & Drink venues Keywords Coffee Coffeehouse Public sphere Club Addison Johnson Boswell Habermas Macaulay Tavern Coffeehouses were key centres of sociability in eighteenth-century Britain. They played an important role … role in the way in which sociability has been understood by historians and critics of the era. Thomas Babington Macaulay used the coffeehouse as key example of how English society worked in the 1680s in his influential History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848). Macaulay’s description of the later Stuart coffeehouse was memorable. The coffeehouse, he declared: ‘[...] might indeed …

James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]

… 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 always … jokes between two men who were both his friends – though far from friends with each other. 1 . Thomas Babington Macaulay, ‘Croker’s Edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (Phildelphia: Carey and … 26. A second aspect of Boswellian sociability was centred on alcohol. This was a facet of his personality less known to Macaulay, who did not have the benefit of the availability of the extensive and detailed (sometimes embarrassingly so) …

Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]

… a steady income, but which had already lost the traditional financial support through aristocratic patronage. As Thomas Macaulay writes about Samuel Johnson in 1831: ‘Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when the condition of a … so great that a popular author may subsist in comfort and opulence on the profits of his works.’ 6 6 . Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Works of Lord Macaulay, 12 vols. (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1898), vol. 8, p. 85-90. Of course, the self-celebration of the ‘age …

Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]

… and Letters of Fanny Burney,  I, xxi-xxii). In his review of the Diary and Letters of Mme d’Arblay , Thomas Babington Macaulay was astonished, not to say shocked, at the fact that Dr. Burney allowed his children ‘to mix freely with those … makes these sort of Speaches eternally, which most Foreigners would regard as ridiculously impolite. ‘ 11 8 . Thomas B. Macaulay, ‘The Diary and Letters of Mme d’Arblay’, Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 2 …

Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]

… the drive for decorous behaviour. 17 The first historian to draw upon Ward’s publications as source material was T.B. Macaulay in his History of England , though he excused himself with a footnote admitting that he was ‘almost ashamed to … p. 921-45. 18 . Charles Harding Firth (ed.), The History of England from the Accession of James the Second by Lord Macaulay, 6 vols (London, 1913) I, p. 340.Charles Harding Firth (ed.), The History of England from the Accession of James the Second by Lord Macaulay, 6 vols (London, 1913) I, p. 340. Share Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin Partager sur Twitter …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… where she is depicted alongside Richard Price, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Richard Sheridan, John Horne Tooke and Catharine Macaulay, all mobilised against Edmund Burke, the author of an impactful anti-revolutionary pamphlet in 1790 ( …