Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… how one could identify 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, … true beauty and those ‘faint and Spiritless’ charms are supposedly easily identified through observation and comparison. Steele, much like Joseph Addison , often commented on the nature of beauty and the effect of the manners on the … throughout the century, becoming further 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. …
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