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Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Club Edinburgh Scotland Britishness Identity National specificities Society Eighteenth-ce ntury Edinburgh saw the creation of about 200 clubs and societies. 1 Up until the … and scientific hub. Indeed, following the Union of 1707 and the end of the Scottish Parliament, the city gained the international status of a learned and polite society. The clubs and societies of Edinburgh, the former capital, would play the …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) showed a sustained appetence for literary and political … mentioned Williams in three letters. See Lettres de Madame Roland, Claude Perroud (ed.), vol. 2, (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1902), p. 194, 467, 469. 6 . Cited by M. Ray Adams, ‘Helen Maria Williams and the French Revolution’, in Earl …

Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]

… theatrical creation. People > Art and Literature Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Epistolary friendship Theatre National specificities France and Great-Britain Anglomania Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, née Laboras de Mézières, was born in Paris on … writing novels, she sought inspiration in the plays from across the English Channel, with strictly British plot lines or national fairy tales. Her correspondence with Garrick, spanning a 12-year period from 1765 to 1777, underscores the close …