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Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… Berry’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D14939, circa 1830-1860. Abstract Mary Berry (1763-1852), renowned traveller, author, and salonnière, friend of Horace Walpole's, headed sociable circles in London but also spent time in the vicinity of Strawberry Hill. She became the posthumous editor of Walpole's correspondence, and authored two plays as well as historiographical works. She met a large number of literati, artists, and politicians and … death is probably at least partly due to her habit of avoiding putting her name on the title-pages of the books she had authored or edited. Moreover, Berry did not write poems and novels but preferred the genres of history and biography. 2 …
Bluestockings | Correspondence | Literature | Travel | Theatre
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A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
Corruption | Eloquence
Anthology
Humphry Clinker (1771) [ Places ]
… accompanied with an organ. Edinburgh is a hot-bed of genius.—I have had the good fortune to be made acquainted with many authors of the first distinction; such as the two Humes, Robertson, Smith, Wallace, Blair, Ferguson, Wilkie, &c. and I … The magistracy of Edinburgh is changed every year by election, and seems to be very well adapted both for state and authority.—The lord provost is equal in dignity to the lord mayor of London; and the four bailies are equivalent to the … EDIN., August 8. … "Edinburgh is a hot-bed of genius.—I have had the good fortune to be made acquainted with many authors of the first distinction; such as the two Humes, Robertson, Smith, Wallace, Blair, Ferguson, Wilkie, &c. and I …
Fiction | Scotland | Correspondence | Architecture
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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… a transport of passion; during which, like a man who has drank himself pot-valiant, I talked to her in such a stile of authority and resolution, as produced a most blessed effect. She and her dog have been remarkably quiet and orderly ever … the evening." … Fiction … Towns … Correspondence … Tobias George Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the Author of Roderick Random. In two volumes . Printed for A. Leathley, J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, W. Sleater, D. Chamberlain, …
Fiction | Towns | Correspondence
Anthology
Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… It had a high concentration of taverns, dosshouses, coffeehouses, and brothels – as well as publishers, booksellers, and authors. This mixture of the socially low, the commercial and the literary made it appealing to use the street name as a … Though the actual street eventually disappeared in the restructuring of London and the social and economic conditions of authorship that the term implied evolved, the notion of Grub Street remained firmly entrenched in the British literary … (one of the lowest forms of accommodation), coffeehouses, and brothels – as well as of publishers, booksellers, and authors. It is this mixture of the socially low, the commercial (all the way to actual prostitution) and the literary …
Commerce | Patronage | Politics | Satire | Sex
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The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… in the Cloak , that’s talking to a Parson ; he’s a Bookseller in this City , and has got an Estate by Starving of Authors. I’ll warrant you, the Priest has been Conjuring his Brain together, and has rais’d some Wonderful Work to the … fallen into the Company of Men or Monkeys ." … Taverns … Dining … Text taken from The London Spy Compleat , By the Author of the Trip to Jamaica. London: Printed and Sold by J. How, at …
Taverns | Dining
Anthology
Rules of Bath (1771) [ Practices ]
… geographical dictionary. By Frederic Watson, M.A. vicar of sutton, and several other gentlemen . London: Printed for the authors, and sold by G. Kearsly, No. 46, Fleet-Street, and all other booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, 1773, p. …
Fashion | Spa | Assemblies | Army | Gentleman
Anthology
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1812) [ People ]
… Number of Eminent Writers And Ingenious Artists : With a Very Copious Index . Second edition. London: Printed for the author, by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1812-1816, p. 433-434. …
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