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Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… his gin addiction and is now insensible, if not actually dead. In the centre sprawls an iconic anti-Madonna. Her exposed body marked with syphilitic sores, she stimulates herself with a pinch of snuff, unconcerned while her child tumbles from …
Alcohol | Crime | Friendship | Poverty
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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… march. The effect was, still more elevated views Of human nature. Neither vice nor guilt, Debasement undergone by body or mind, Nor all the misery forced upon my sight, Misery not lightly passed, but sometimes scanned Most feelingly, …
Poetry | Friendship | Beauty
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Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… This involved not only the suppression of one’s true thoughts and feelings, but also ‘strict control of the body and all its movements’, which had especial resonance for writers concerned about the perils of false friendship. 15 …
Antagonism | Civility | Enmity | Falsehood | Friendship | Gender | Politeness | Women
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
Collecting | Consumption | Emotions | Fashion | Friendship | Luxury | North America | Snuff
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
Art | Collecting | Commerce | Conversation | Correspondence | Exhibitions | Friendship | Patronage | Poetry | Salons
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… today, accused of using the subaltern to reinforce the power of the upper classes by ‘assuming control over the symbolic body of an infantilized working-class ‘ Other ’ ( Kowaleski-Wallace 74). More knew a number of failures due to the …
Bluestockings | Charity | Education | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Manners | Philanthropy | Poverty | Reformation | Religion | Slavery | Women
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