Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… have kept out of political sociability. Her house was frequently filled with family members and navy acquaintances for dinners and assemblies, and thus provided opportunities for Boscawen to exert a form of social politics in the manner … of Late Eighteenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal (n° 43, vol. 3, 2000), p. 669-697, here p. 684. Boscawen’s dinner parties served to gather news and promote her husband’s career by means of diligent networking. Her sociable … letter continues, she had invited his brother as well as a member of Parliament, Sir Charles Frederick, and his wife to dinner. E ven then, she seems to have preferred small sociable circles and dinner parties. Yet in the 1750s, while her …
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