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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… 59.533.500, 1795. Abstract In the long eighteenth century, assembly rooms became an established institution in Britain’s towns and cities, growing in number over the course of the ‘century’. Assembly rooms across Great Britain became the … including spa (Bath and Cheltenham), market (Beverley), county (Newcastle), industrial (Manchester), and port (Bristol) towns and cities. Assembly rooms developed throughout Great Britain, throughout the length and breadth of England, into … across the country later in the century. Peter Borsay noted that, between 1660 and 1770, sixty-five spa and market towns funded and built assembly rooms for their communities, based on newspapers and assembly room records (151, 336-49). …
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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]
… of condescension. A similar situation obtained at the annual race meets. Race Weeks were usually held in the county towns or market towns any time from early July through September. They were community gatherings that brought the local political elite …
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… of character among the females’, a feebleness, she argued, which was ‘bequeathed from mother to daughter in small towns at a distance from the metropolis; where there are few suspensive subjects or pursuits of interest, ambition, or …
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… were in some cases authorised by their owners or managers to sell the surplus from their ‘kitchen-gardens’ in nearby towns. Once there, they would pass on news and opinions to others arriving from different plantations. Information about …
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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… merchandise and the commonality clean and cheerful’, it was ‘impossible not to observe the difference between the free towns and those under the government of absolute Princes’ (Montagu 1994, 8). Germany and Scandinavia were indeed …
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… (London: Methuen, 1910), p. 78-104, and W. S. Scott, 'Mary Delany,' in The Blue Stocking Ladies, ed. Gertrude Townshend Mayer (London: J. Green and Co., 1947), p. 19-44. 10 . Hannah More, The Bas-Bleu; or, Conversation (1787). …
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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… 1, 6), theatrical entertainments (LF I, 1, 12 ; I, 2, 12), frequenting cafés , 16 theLycée (LF I, 2, 18) 17 and spa towns (LF I, 1, 23 ; I, 2, 21), experimenting with new forms of sociability through revolutionary celebrations 18 for the …
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