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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… of these new relationships was the sharing of literary interests: called ‘Nine' 3 by Garrick, More also wrote poems, essays and stories, and her celebrity fed on that of the other members of the bluestocking circle. Conversely, as part of … Women, Friendship and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990). More, Hannah, Essays on Various Subjects, Principally Designed for Young Ladie s (1777). Swallow Prior, Karen, Fierce Convictions: the … Women, Friendship and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990). More, Hannah, Essays on Various Subjects, Principally Designed for Young Ladie s (1777). Swallow Prior, Karen, Fierce Convictions: the …
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
Affection | Benevolence | Conversation | Family | Friendship | Imagination | Patriotism | Science | Sympathy
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… a towering figure in circles promoting literary sociability, and a respected literary critic after her publication of an essay on Shakespeare refuting Voltaire’s criticism of the dramatist. Affluent and generous, she set her own stamp on … terms with Samuel Johnson , who seems to have admired her knowledge on literature. For his pejorative remarks on her Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare (1769), there is only Boswell’s word, but they did fall out when Johnson … a towering figure in circles promoting literary sociability, and a respected literary critic after her publication of an essay on Shakespeare refuting Voltaire’s criticism of the dramatist. Affluent and generous, she set her own stamp on …
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Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… Aspect of Hostility in the Middle Ages’, in Tracey L. Billado and Belle S. Tuten (eds), Feud, Violence and Practice: Essays in Medieval Studies in Honor of Stephen D. White (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 199–201. By the eighteenth century, … your rival’ (Stanhope 83). 7 . M. B., The Triall of True Friendship, sig. B3r. 8 . Francis Bacon, ‘Of Revenge’, in The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban (2nd ed., London, 1625), p. 21 9 . … Entertainment for the Fair Sex (London, 1694), p. 223. 13 . Alexander Monro (Primus), The Professor’s Daughter: An Essay on Female Conduct (1739), ed. P.A.G. Monro (Cambridge: P.A.G Monro, 1995), p. 50. 14 . John Gregory [Lord Gregory], …
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… Rape of the Lock and his various editions of The Dunciad from 1728 onwards); and philosophical treatises in verse (his Essay on Man of 1733-4 perhaps being the most notable of these). Although generically eclectic, his poetic works were … constitutional and philosophical) feature prominently in Pope’s poetry of the 1730s, and he was the dedicatee of the Essay on Man as well as one of the Horatian epistles. In the words of Brean Hammond, Pope saw Bolingbroke as ‘an …
Catholicism | Celebrity | Correspondence | Enmity | Friendship | Poetry
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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… friendship and sociability circulating in literary coteries of the time. 2 . See, for example, the recent collection of essays in Keats’s Places, ed. Richard Marggraf Turley (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). 3 . Nicholas Roe, … blossoms into broader reflections on the democratizing potential of friendly dialogue: 6 . As Ronald Sharp writes, in an essay dedicated to the subject, ‘So fully did friendship pervade Keats’s life and work that it can have the dulling force … obvious’ (‘Keats and Friendship,’ in Robert M. Ryan and Ronald A. Sharp (eds.), The Persistence of Poetry: Bicentennial Essays on Keats [Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998]), pp. 66-81, p. 67. 7 . John Mee, ‘Introduction’, in …
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Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… contributions to the club and its projects remain rather vague, though Pope acknowledged him as a contributor to the ‘Essay concerning the origin of the sciences’, and Parnell also helped Pope with his Homeric translations. At the other … become a prominent voice in the republic of letters, gaining recognition with Windsor Forest (1711), controversy with An Essay on Criticism (1713), and widespread popularity with The Rape of the Lock (1714). His friendship with Swift that led …
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Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… (cf. Stowe Gardens). Meanwhile, through Tonson’s scholarly editions of Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton, the Spectator essays of Joseph Addison (1672-1719) on literary criticism, and the production of patriotic verse in epic mode, they … dominated subscription lists to fund his publication of Caesar’s Commentaries (1712), the first collected volume of essays from The Tatler (1710), and Steele’s bestselling pamphlet The Crisis (1714). He treated the Club’s literary … Penguin, 1969), p. XVII. What Walpole learned politically, Addison and Steele learned in terms of social norms. Neither essayist appears to have been members of any other club prior to 1711, therefore Bickerstaff’s club in The Tatler …
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William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… entertainments, since he made a distinction between ‘innocent relaxation’ and an unbridled passion for gaming in an essay published in 1797, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and …
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