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Art | Commodities | Community | Consumption | Furniture | Luxury | Porcelain | Shopping | Tea-table | Women
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1812) [ People ]
… an evening, the meeting-place of a select party of men of superior abilities, for the purpose of conversation..." … Shopping … Literature … Text taken from John Nichols, Samuel Bentley and Son Nichols. Literary Anecdotes of the …
Shopping | Literature
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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… , Journal of Design History (vol. 21, n° 3, 2008), p. 205-221. Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997). Midgley, Clare, Feminism … , Journal of Design History (vol. 21, n° 3, 2008), p. 205-221. Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997). Midgley, Clare, Feminism …
Consumption | Domesticity | Femininity | Slave trade | Tea | Tea-table
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 228-248. The commerce of the snuffbox: fashion, shopping and social networks The making of snuffboxes implied the social connection of different professions. Goldsmiths, …
Collecting | Consumption | Emotions | Fashion | Friendship | Luxury | North America | Snuff
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Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… Wright's Circulating Library, Bodleian Library, Douce Portfolio 139 (808). Permission of the Bodleian Library. Image "Shopping at the Temple of the Muses" by Rudolph Ackermann (1809). Abstract London Bookshops are no longer seen …
Books | Commerce | Reading
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Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… played a distinctive role in supporting women’s mobility and participation to such fashionable, sociable activities as shopping, visiting, going to assemblies or the theatre. By carrying snuffboxes , scent bottles and portable writing sets, …
Dress | Fashion | Friendship | Gaming | Women
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… South Parades, Orange Grove, new pleasure gardens, the Spring Gardens, airy streets conducive to social encounters and shopping, such as Milsom Street (one can think of its influence on the plots of some of Jane Austen ’s novels, Northanger …
Codes | Fashion | Health | Leisure | Politeness | Ritual | Spa
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Spas [ Health ]
… Chairs’ facilitated access to the walks for people with disabilities. The famous ‘pantiles’, Tunbridge Wells’ early shopping alley paved in 1700, blended in early consumer culture with the social ritual of the promenade. Longer walks in …
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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Saint James's [ Cities ]
… and a sword cutler (Chancellor 51). At the South end of St James’s Street, Pall Mall was also one of the first important shopping streets of the area, with a profusion of new luxury shops. St James’s Street was crowded with the carriages of …
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