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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… 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 … bar. Yet every rank and profession, and every shade of religious and political opinion, had its own headquarters‘. 10 Macaulay presented a Whig history of the coffeehouse in which this new social institution served as a venue for the …
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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 …
Commerce | Patronage | Politics | Satire | Sex
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Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
Art | Audience | Bluestockings | Conversation | Music
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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 …
Clubs | Humour | Impoliteness | Politics | Satire | Sex | Taverns
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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 ( …
Correspondence | France | French Revolution | Politics | Women
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Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]
… les autorités redoutent que se propagent les idées révolutionnaires auxquelles certains radicaux sont déjà acquis (dont Macaulay, Johnson, Godwin, Williams ou Wollstonecraft). La proximité de la comtesse avec la Maison d’Orléans est devenue …
Correspondence | Education | Emigration | French Revolution | Memoirs | Salons
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