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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… a French couple who had been victims of that regime, for the French Revolution ( Julia , 1790). With their rights reinstated after the fall of the Bastille, the Du Fossé family invited Williams to stay with them so that she could observe … 2 vols, Introduction by Janet M. Todd, Delmar, New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1975). Unless otherwise stated, our references will be formatted as series number, volume number, letter number. 2 . The Analytical Review, … on both sides of the Channel. In her chronicles recounting the latter years of the Revolution ( Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic , 1801), Williams remained faithful to the epistolary model . 24   …

English theatre (and transnational sociability) [ Sports & Leisure / National & Transnational cultures / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… remained a meeting and mingling place for different social groups, including merchants, apprentices, office-holders or state officials. The social composition of the Restoration audience has remained an object of debate since the A. S. … by the attribution of official patents. Unlike the French Comédie française, they were not directly funded by Crown nor State but were market-dependent. 6 . On the complexity of the process, see for example Paulina Kewes (ed.), Plagiarism in …

Vestries [ Religious Belief ]

… and chronological contexts.  From the 1530s and culminating in the Elizabethan poor law of 1597-1601, England’s emerging state appropriated parish infrastructure for local government purposes, including highway maintenance, the control of … English Poor 1750-1834 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), Brodie Waddell, ‘The rise of the parish welfare state in England, c.1600-1800’, Past & Present (vol. 253, n°1, 2021), p. 151–194, and Peter Collinge and Louise Falcini … his own negative experiences at Helpston in Northamptonshire, poet-pauper John Clare coined the satirical phrase ‘parish state’ for what he saw as a system serving the class interests of an (inadequate) ratepayer elite: 'Churchwardens …

Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]

… Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees (1723), suggesting he ‘recognized that elegant clothes could serve as an overt statement of social superiority’. 1  In February 1731 The Gentleman’s Magazine wrote, ‘By the fashion, figure, and colour … The London Tradesman (London: T. Gardner, 1747), p. 191. While it could be argued that dress created a visually legible statement of the individual and how they chose to adorn their body, in reality, judging the quality of a person’s …

Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… The Author. A Poem (London: W. Flexney, 1763), p. 3-4; James Ralph, The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade, Stated. With Regard to Booksellers, the Stage, and the Public. No Matter by Whom (London: R. Griffiths, 1758). 2 . Paul … as the most decisive economic factor in the production of literary texts. 4 . Oliver Goldsmith, Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe, 2nd ed. (London: J. Dodsley, 1774), p. 93. Paul Korshin describes the system of … about, discussing the worth of a painting at an exhibition), the modes of patronage shifted to give the public and the state a much higher profile. Share Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin Partager sur Twitter Partager par Email …

Saint James's [ Cities ]

… ‘ . 2 When Whitehall was accidentally destroyed by fire in 1698, William III asked Sir Christopher Wren to create new state rooms at St James’s. The Court became ‘a constellation of smaller residences’, splitting ‘ceremony and residence’ … ground. Following the Restoration, Charles II ‘poured large sums of money into fashioning St James’s Park as a reinstatement of natural order.’ It became one of London’s most fashionable promenades, especially for women. 4 Throughout … by women − as well as balls and assemblies (Greig 139). Horace Walpole, who attended the reception at the opening of the state apartments at Norfolk House, commented: ‘ All the earth was there last Tuesday. You would have thought there had …