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Casanova in London (1763) [ People ]
… old friendship’s sake that I did not pay the money to you; for you might have known that I would not condescend to be present in the modest manner you indicated.” This address, delivered with an ironical accent, embarrassed Madame … appearance, he told him to get me a wench just as though he were ordering a bottle of champagne. The lad went out, and presently a girl of herculean proportions entered. “Sir,” said I, “I don’t like the looks of this girl.” “Give her a … the ride home. For a fortnight I saw nothing of her, but I met her again in a house where Lady Harrington had told me to present myself, giving her name. It was Lady Betty German’s, and I found her out, but was asked to sit down and wait as …
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Parish churches [ Institutions ]
… Picture by the author. Abstract Parish churches have provided key places of sociability from the Middle Ages to the present. Particularly in premodern times, when attendance was expected if not mandatory, they accommodated members of both sexes, different age groups and representatives of poorer as well as more prosperous inhabitants. This entry focuses on the principal places of worship of … of charivari appeared in a film based on Natalie Zemon Davis’s The Return of Martin Guerre (Paris: R. Laffont, 1982). Representations, tensions and developments over time All of these interactions involved complex blends of religious and …
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Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]
… is no conversation. They break up about nine o’clock, all but a small select company, who are invited to supper. But the present race of Romans are by no means so fond of convivial entertainments, as their predecessors. The magnificence of …
Grand Tour | Italy | Assemblies | Conversation | Diplomacy
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Letter to Samuel Crisp (1775) [ People / Practices ]
… to the Prince. His Highness laughed, & with great good humour, desired the General to untie the picture from his Neck, & present it to us; & he was very facetious upon the occasion, desiring to know if we wanted any thing else? & saying that, …
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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… studies in the 1980s and 1990s (most notably the work by Terry Castle). 1 Nevertheless, both written and visual representations of masked assemblies of the century show that, just like musical concerts, theatrical productions and … and Historical Chronicle. Volume XL (London: Printed for D. Henry, 1770), p. 98. This report, apart from tangibly representing the indicators of luxury and glamour, draws attention to some of the masked characters who took part in the … from: the domino, which was a neutral, usually black cloak completely covering the attendee, the fancy dress, which presented the wearer as a member of one general class, such as ‘the nun’ or ‘the devil’, and the (often theatrical) …
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Spas [ Health ]
… Century (36, no. 3, 1995), pp. 203–19. The Bath assembly rooms , renovated by John Wood the younger in 1771, certainly represent the epitome of late Georgian elite sociability around card-playing games such as quadrille, dancing and tea, with … of larger spa towns. They recorded the well-to-do visitors, announced and introduced them to the rest of the society present in the spa town. They entertained guests with their wit and conversational skills, and sometimes oversaw the …
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… who had been often called, by way of pleasantry, the Blue Stockings. These little Societies have been sometimes misrepresented. They were composed of persons distinguished, in general, for their rank, talents, or respectable character, … experienced all the levels of sociability she had yearned for or been educated to yearn for in her youth. Very often present but rarely in the limelight, Mary Delany was a very sociable being, abiding by the rules of propriety in all …
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