Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… a true, virtuous beauty, from those making improper use of their physical perfection. As Richard Steele claimed in The Spectator : 8 . Hannah Greig, The Beau Monde (Oxford: OUP, 2013), p. 176. 9 . See also: Joan Lane, ‘Coventry [née … defined and perpetuated by the social visibility of women. 10 . Richard Steele, ‘no. 33, Saturday 7 April 1712’, in The Spectator (London: S. Buckley and J. Tonson, 1712), vol. 1, p. 180–186. In 1776, The Morning Post published the ‘Scale …
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