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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… It remained unpublished during her lifetime. 7 In 1776, Henry Thrale presented his wife with six handsome blank quarto volumes, the Thraliana , in which Hester began to jot down her own English ‘ ana ’: a collection of anecdotes and … – all in all, a medley from which many insights into eighteenth-century sociable practices can be gleaned. The second volume particularly focuses on interesting bon mots , anecdotes, and conversational snippets concerning Samuel Johnson, …
Bluestockings | Commerce | Friendship | Italy | Literature | Politics
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Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… his papers was nominally left to Robert Berry, Mary's father, but it was the daughter who posthumously edited the five-volume Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford (1798), albeit not under her own name. 4 She later also edited Madame du … works. 8 The main source about her sociable life at home and abroad, her encounters, and her journeys is the three-volume Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence (1865), a posthumous edition for which she had given directions and … in society. Part of their interaction is documented through letters that Walpole sent them, which are contained in two volumes of the monumental Yale edition of Walpole's correspondence. 10 Their friendship took the form of a gallant game: …
Bluestockings | Correspondence | Literature | Travel | Theatre
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Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… matter, the length and the format of the book he wanted to undertake – often large-scale enterprises like a multi-volume history or a collection of engravings that had high production costs – and then tried to find as many buyers … besides obtaining the book, was the inclusion of their names in a list of subscribers printed at the front of the volume. Due to the public nature of the list and the mutually supportive role of social association (both subscribers and …
Aristocracy | Art | Commerce | Exhibitions | Literature | Patronage | Subscription
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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
Literature | Manners | Periodicals | Politeness | Whigs | Wit
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