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Jonathan Wild (1743) [ Practices ]
… weak and honest can indulge themselves in remissness or repose. The Achates, Fireblood, had been present at both these meetings; but, though he had a little too hastily concurred in cursing his friend, and in vowing his perdition, yet now …
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… effects more often than not resonated in sociable interactions, such as letter writing, coffee house discussions or club meetings. In some cases, the shared social aspect of reading was so strong that it easily dominated over the individual … practice of reading, as suggested by the 1788 satirical poem ‘The Country Book Club’ authored by Charles Shillito: Thus, meeting to dispute, to fight, to plead, To smoke, to drink—do anything but read— The club—with stagg’ring steps, yet …
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… a leading social space. Freemasons with reformist ideas inspired by the Revolution would use the Palais-Royal as their meeting place. It is also where Laclos met the Duc’s English mistress, Grace Elliott, whose memoirs attributed most of … tradition of French epistolary art as a counterpart to the art of conversation, Les liaisons dangereuses was the perfect meeting of subject and form . 9 The epistolary novel no longer aspired to provide authenticity and instruction to a genre …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
Correspondence | Emotions | Fiction | Friendship
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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