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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]

… one’s social circle and gain their admiration. Dress was a means of public exposure, a visual and imitable symbol of rank, wealth and refinement, which in its imitation, and as a result frequently changing and extreme styles, was met with … social demand. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Dress Fashion Sociability Society Women Rank Class Clothes Fashion, much like its influence today, played a central role in the development of Enlightenment sociability. A person’s dress was used to establish rank, cement social relationships, generate friendship and social gossip, and even indicate political allegiance. The …

Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]

… Jane Austen analysed the implications of late Georgian and Regency sociability with regard to gender and social rank. Critiquing earlier notions of polite sociability, her fictions recognise new sites of provincial recreation and … in the digital realm. People > Art and Literature Keywords provincial sociability Gender performance courtship social rank Public sphere leisure economy The Sociable Jane Austen Jane Austen’s early life, growing up in her father’s country … expression of real affection and desire required private communication. Covert affairs, like that of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill in Emma , are seen to destabilise the community until they can be openly acknowledged. Ideally, the …

Portable directories [ Print culture ]

… understand how they were effectively used by consumers. Objects > Print culture Keywords genealogical knowledge status Rank Politeness pride identification From the Restoration onwards, there was a close relationship between urban growth, … many clues, which help us to understand how they were effectively used by consumers. … genealogical knowledge … status … Rank … Politeness … pride … identification … Portable directories …

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]

… Cavendish, fifth Duchess of Devonshire captivated late eighteenth-century society with her youth, charm and high rank. Her epistolary novel The Sylph explores the relationship between high society, sociability and suicide. People > … and her youth pushed Cavendish towards creating her own circle of friends, and her noted charm, high spirits and high rank made her a social sensation with the ‘bon ton’. 1. Horace Walpole to Lady Ossory, Wednesday 1st February, 1775, The … relationship between high society, sociability and suicide and reveals a clash between a man of honour, indicated by his rank and lives in high society, and the practitioner of true sociability. The Sylph shocked critics, primarily because it …

Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]

… of painters with the Society of Dilettanti and their diffidence towards amateurs as well as the antagonism within the ranks of artists themselves. The statutes did not exclude female members though: two women, Angelica Kauffmann and Mary … Italian-born Bonomi, for the post of Professor of Perspective, to increasing hostility to foreign talent within the ranks of Academicians, people ‘little versed in the little requisites of civil intercourse’. 15 13. Robert Strange, An … 274. Both in its statutes, barring connoisseurs from membership, and in its exhibitions, forbidding access to the lower ranks of the public, the Royal Academy of Arts opted for a restricted form of sociability in which exclusion meant …

Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]

… a particular agenda in mind. Where the ideal of coffee-house conversation (however accurate) was that distinctions of rank and class could be suspended and the best argument would win the day, convivial gatherings would appoint a ‘ chair …