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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 …
Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Politics | Women
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Robinson Crusoe (1719) [ People ]
… my inner wall, so I carried it all into the new tent, and having set a table there for them, I sat down, and ate my own dinner also with them, and, as well as I could, cheered them and encouraged them. Friday was my interpreter, especially …
Conversation | Fiction
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The Spectator, No. 49 (26 April 1711) [ Places ]
… he shakes his Head at any Piece of publick News, they all of them appear dejected; and on the contrary, go home to their Dinners with a good Stomach and cheerful Aspect, when Eubulus seems to intimate that Things go well. Nay, their … as his Back is turned. Having here given an Account of the several Reigns that succeed each other from Day-break till Dinner-time, I shall mention the Monarchs of the Afternoon on another Occasion, and shut up the whole Series of them with …
Coffeehouses | Audience
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The Life of Beau Nash (1762) [ People ]
… fine clothes to half the nobility, who spend more in chair hire, than housekeeping; and prefer a bow from a Lord, to a dinner from a Commoner. In this manner Mr Nash spent some years about town, till at last his genteel appearance, his …
Dress | Army
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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]
… or Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806), used their social skills to political effect. Lady Hervey’s famous dinners for select groups of ‘ bel esprits ’, mixed established and up-and coming politicians with beautiful and/or witty … the case in November 1758 when she invited the leading Opposition politician and Paymaster of the Forces, Henry Fox, to dinner. Fox, who was keen to gain Opposition supporters, recorded the event: ‘On Thursday at Ly Hervey’s to meet a very … As a result, they were often openly politicized, with the leading or aspiring political families sponsoring breakfasts, dinners and balls, and giving cups and trophies as prizes for the races themselves. Dressed in their best court clothes …
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