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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… his guests (Franklin 40). Hester revelled in her role as the fashionable hostess of a literary salon (including a lavish dinner table), vying with, and accepted by, the Bluestocking queen Elizabeth Montagu , who frequently visited at … Reynolds, or Dr Charles Burney , who was engaged as Queenie’s music tutor but quickly gained a place at the famous dinner table. In 1777, Hester, an ardent Tory, was introduced at Court. A year later, she began to patronize Dr Burney’s … at the Rylands Library, Eng. MS. 618. On their return to Britain in 1787, the Piozzis continued to be sociable, hosting dinners for their still numerous acquaintances, inviting friends first to a rented house in Hanover Square, then to …
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Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… post, a position in the church, or payment for an article in a political journal. It could mean an invitation to a dinner or the introduction to an even more influential person, food and lodging in a country house or protection from the …
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… ‘by inch of candle’ 2 in 1662 London, Samuel Pepys recorded the rumpus caused by the novel method of auction: ‘After dinner, we met and went to see sold the Weymouth Successe and Fellowship Hulkes where pleasant to see how backward …
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… became an emblem of gentility, sobriety, fellowship and sociable relations to such an extent that, as attested by the dinner register of the Royal Society ’s dining club, a gentleman who wished to be accepted as an Honorary Member of the …
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
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