Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… (1703), Dr Thomas Gibson equated beauty to a pseudo-medical interpretation of physiognomy, aligning the face with the expression of the mind: 2 . Ruth Kelso, Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1956), p. 192–93. […] both the beauty of the Face, and its admirable consent with the Mind doth epitomise as it … Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Analysis of Beauty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 115. 6 . Morag Martin, Selling Beauty: Cosmetics, Commerce and French Society 1750–1830 (Baltimore: …
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