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The Young Lady's Pocket Library (1793) [ Practices ]
… of unsuspcting innocence, for no other reason but being infected with other people's laughing..." … Laughter … Women … Theatre … Entertainement … Family … Text taken from The Young Lady's Pocket Library, Or Parental monitor; …
Laughter | Women | Theatre | Entertainement | Family
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The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… of life, and balm of care, Still may thy gentle reign extend, And taste with wit and science blend!" … Bluestockings … Women … Greece … Taken from Hannah More, Florio: a tale, for fine gentlemen and fine ladies: and, the bas bleu; or, …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
Anthology
Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Assembly rooms across Great Britain became the physical and social heart of the community, places where men and women could meet to converse, dance, and attend lectures and concerts. Despite being associational spaces of leisure and … culture Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Keywords Assemblies Community Dance Entertainement Leisure Music Politeness Women Assembly rooms were institutions that encouraged and regulated sociability in the long eighteenth century, spaces … former MP for Bath. 9 For Lady Directresses, who were typically found in the North of England and Scotland, these women were elected from amongst the civic elite. 10 In Edinburgh in the 1760s and 1770s, the Honourable Miss Nicky …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… > Literary & Artistic genres Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Commerce Correspondence Femininity Periodicals Politics Women Gendered sociability in the English periodical essay While seventeenth-century English newspapers and the political … (1709-1711) or The Lover (1714) were not only available in coffeehouses but also through private subscriptions. Women, who were barred access to coffeehouses, could therefore read them at home. Their literacy and purchasing power … the Whig journals’ prescriptive agenda tended to frame sociability along gender lines. In The Spectator , men’s and women’s sociabilities were dictated by what was believed to be their respective and complementary nature. Masculinity was …
Commerce | Correspondence | Femininity | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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Periodicals [ Print culture ]
… seen as a virtual sociable space. Objects > Print culture Keywords Conversation Correspondence News Periodicals Politics Women A ‘periodical’ or periodical publication is a text published at regular intervals. The periodical is characterized … succeeds in bringing together readers from very different professional or social backgrounds. An issue could thus tackle women's fashion, then methods of inoculation of smallpox, and then proceed to a detailed and scholarly reflection on a … offered articles for a large part of the wealthy class of the population but it also gave a significant place to women in its pages. In this sense, it contributed to the progressive emancipation of women, notably by giving them easier …
Conversation | Correspondence | News | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… of sociability discussed include dance and voodoo on plantations; the culture of maronnage; the mediating role of free women of colour in marriages and business; and the theatre. The entry shows how racialisation shaped the development of … French Revolution. Places > Trade Practices > Politics & Society Keywords France Marronage North America Slavery Theatre Women As historical scholarship over the past few decades has shown , sociability played a significant role in … for example) refused to live there and relied on local agents and managers (and sometimes concubines, who were often women of colour) to run their affairs. 2 Those who did settle in the colony generally did so only for a few years before …
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
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Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… and artists, and through her sheer longevity, remained a decades-long presence in London's society. That, like other women writers before her, she largely disappeared from public consciousness after her death is probably at least partly … Life Writing of Mary Berry (1763-1852) and Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)' in Andrew O. Winckles and Angela Rehbein (eds.), Women's Literary Networks and Romanticism: 'A Tribe of Authoresses' (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017), p. … collector, author, creator of the mock Gothic mansion Strawberry Hill – whom they met in 1788, helped the two young women and their father Robert to become established in society. Part of their interaction is documented through letters …
Bluestockings | Correspondence | Literature | Travel | Theatre
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Salons [ Associational culture ]
Enlightenment | France | Gaming | Networks | Patronage
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