Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… . Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780 (University of California Press, 1996), p. 209. Definitions of ‘gentleman’ in Dr Samuel Johnson ’s Dictionary of the English Language , first … Roland Quinault, eds, Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F.M.L. Thompson (Manchester University Press, 1996), pp. 241-58. 3 . Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (London: HarperPress, 2007), p. 23. The social behaviour expected of the traditional, patrician gentleman was not very different from …
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