Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… used to advocate and challenge established moral virtues, cultural beliefs and women’s self-creation. Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Aesthetics Beauty Conduct Femininity Manners Women ‘Female beauty’, wrote Oliver Goldsmith in An History of the Earth (1776), ‘is always seen to improve … Could a person be beautiful without being beautiful on the inside? When issues of virtue, morality, sensibility, and manners were considered in terms of their relationship with physical attractiveness, beauty was still being understood as …
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