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Casanova in London (1763) [ People ]
… … Women … Taken from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seinga lt, 1725-1798. Transl. by Arthur Machen. London: Elek Books, 1894, vol. 5, chap. 8. Full text from Project Guntenberg. … Casanova in London (1763) …
Assemblies | Music | Women
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The New Bath Guide (1766) [ Practices / Places / People ]
… W. Frederick, at Bath; W. Jackson, at Oxford; T. Fletcher & F. Hodson, at Cambridge; W. Smith, at Dublin; and the booksellers of Bristol, York, and Edinburgh, 1766, p. 70-80. … The New Bath Guide (1766) …
Beauty
Anthology
Duelling (1753) [ Practices ]
… of Pamela and Clarissa. In seven volumes. ... London, printed by S. Richardson, and Dublin, re-printed and sold by the booksellers, 1753, p. 56-58. Full text from ECCO TCP. … Duelling (1753) …
Fiction
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Rules for Walking the Streets (1737) [ Places / Practices ]
Conduct | Conversation | Public sphere
Anthology
An Imam in Paris (1826-1831) [ Practices ]
… An Imam in Paris. Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831) , trans. Daniel L. Newman (London: Saqi Books, 2011), p. 222-223. … An Imam in Paris (1826-1831) …
Fashion | Dress | France
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Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… dedicated to social elites. The rapid socio-cultural change among the landed families required up-to-date reference books, which provided a snapshot of their ancestors, alliances and children. Whether it be during the London Season or in … confusing rules on titles meant that insiders as well as outsiders struggled to identify who was who. Shrewd London booksellers jumped at the opportunity and published hundreds of family compilations which listed all the names, … the main kings, queens and famous politicians. 10 . Jennie Batchelor, ‘Fashion and Frugality: Eighteenth-Century Pocket Books for Women’, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture (vol. 32, n° 1, 2003), p. 1-18; Barbara Burman and Ariane …
Collecting | Elite | Merchants | Politeness | Rank
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… An Imam in Paris. Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831), trans. Daniel L. Newman (London: Saqi Books, 2011), p. 154. 4 . According to the French custom of the time, anyone coming from abroad was put in quarantine in … a cultural and a social purpose. He was amazed by the numerous libraries and by the great regard in which they held books of all cultures. He noted with deep admiration that one of these libraries, al-Khizāna al-Sultāniyya (Bibliothèque Royale), housed a huge number of Arabic books that were rare anywhere else including in Egypt. It even contained extremely rare copies of the Qur’ān. He also …
Dress | Europe | France | Theatre | Travel
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Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… and J. Robinson, 1797), Preface ; William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice [1793] (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985), p. 289; Samuel Johnson, ‘Solitude not eligible’ in The Adventurer, no 126, (19 Jan. 1754). Not … 18 A character in her Letters for Literary Ladies declares ‘I would have my daughter read and compare various books, and correct her judgment of books by listening to the conversation of persons of sense and experience’. 19 This is precisely what Lord Sheffield had …
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