Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
… as if this is of a rather distinctive character and suggests that a different sociability existed between men than among women. People > Art and Literature Objects > Diaries & Letters Practices > Communication Keywords Art Conventions Diaries … that he had over £12,000 squirreled away. Farington records all this en passant but there is no sense that he owed these women anything, or that he should have reprimanded the men involved (his advice to Opie seems entirely based on what he … the child in baptism’. But the abstract noun is clearly already implicit in Johnson’s ‘One who runs about tattling like women at a lying in’. 3 But many features of two types of gossip are evident in the period. The first is akin to our own …
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