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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]

… bluestocking circle and later her membership of the evangelical group, the Clapham Sect, to embark on crusades against poverty, the perverted manners of the Great, the ill-conceived education of women and the evils of slavery. She devised … & Society Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Bluestocking Education Evangelicalism Friendship Manners Philanthropy Poverty Reformation Religion Slavery Women Wilberforce Hannah More (1745-1833), who was one of the first women writers to … four main causes, the reformation of manners, the abolition of slavery, the education of women and the alleviation of poverty. Having started as a provincial schoolteacher living in Bristol and educated in her father’s school, she soon …

Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]

… > Eating & Drinking Concepts > Social interaction Keywords Gin alcohol crime Friendship drinking establishments London Poverty Gin, the colourless spirit flavoured with juniper, can be classed as an object. ‘The Gin Craze’, the phenomenon … foaming tankards of apparently health-giving beer. In contrast,  Gin Lane , located in the slums of St. Giles, depicts poverty, squalor and human degradation. Moreover, at the heart of the image are two figures who symbolise the breakdown … that lubricated many criminal associations. … Gin … alcohol … crime … Friendship … drinking establishments … London … Poverty … Gin and the Gin Craze …

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… of eighteenth-century sociable lives: a wealthy society lady, she went through periods of financial instability and even poverty. A central part of fashionable society, she also experienced loss and loneliness. A glittering hostess, she was … Italy commerce Born into a Welsh family proud of its ancestry, Hester Lynch Salusbury spent most of her early years in poverty due to her father’s financial inaptitude and quarrelsome nature. Her mother was a victim of domestic abuse, … of eighteenth-century sociable lives: a wealthy society lady, she went through periods of financial instability and even poverty. A central part of fashionable society, she also experienced loss and loneliness. A glittering hostess, she was …

William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]

… studied: less so the role of his sociability in securing abolition. He also embraced other causes – the alleviation of poverty and the reformation of manners – that can be traced to the same origin, namely the devotion to Christ. …

Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]

… where, according to Kirkman, his desire for self-improvement started (Kirkman 44-45) and who had previously escaped poverty in Donegal to move from Dublin to London. He created such a mesmeric, realistic and convincing character that it … reports. His public image was tainted by the past he had fought to erase, his Irishness associated in England with poverty, criminal violence (the murder of Thomas Hallam) and a tendency to squabbles whereas Garrick, using more … in the part, floundering his lines, he left the stage forever and spent the last years of his life in poor health and poverty-stricken. Macklin’s astonishing and lasting success across the London Georgian theatres and in Dublin theatres, …

William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]

… (or Emy) Lyon in or around 1765, at Ness, in the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, she was raised by her mother in relative poverty. 7  Her father, a blacksmith at the local coal mine, died when Emma was a few weeks old. After this inauspicious … died in 1805, after which Emma, assailed by debts from overspending and gambling, fled to Calais, where she died in poverty in 1815. Her passing in near anonymity was a far cry from the scintillating sociable activity of which she had …