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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… introduces a kind of familiarity that would be quite inadmissible in a drawing room. When a gentleman solicits the honour of your hand, it is not a figure of speech; your hand really belongs to him, for the time; and if he persists in … the extent to which young women tolerated the intrusive touch of the hands and lips of men who were keen to do them the honour. It does not suggest that men were less keen to make such advances, although many did respond to signals that set … risk of transgression. As Burney also emphasized, the metropolis was a uniquely threatening world. There was no code of honour for women to identify, manage and revenge a man’s ‘insult’ – except by proxy through a husband or a member of her …
Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch
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The Spectator, No. 324 (12 March 1712) [ People ]
… may there be taught to take warning from the Club of Duellists; and be put in mind, that the common Fate of those Men of Honour was to be hang'd. I am, Sir, Your most humble Servant, Philanthropos … "The President is styled Emperor of the …
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At the Ball (1815) [ Practices ]
… eyes are so much upon me, and in compliment to the Westons, who I have no doubt are giving this ball chiefly to do me honour,I would not wish to be inferior to others : and I see very few pearls in the room except mine.—So, Frank Churchill …
Fiction | Dance | Benevolence | Happiness
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… and Scotland, these women were elected from amongst the civic elite. 10 In Edinburgh in the 1760s and 1770s, the Honourable Miss Nicky Murray, daughter of the 6 th Viscount of Stormont and sister to the 2 nd Earl of Mansfield, was one …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… In 1753, for example, John Ormsby informed those interested in his school of fencing and dancing that he ‘has had the honour to tutor several gentlemen and ladies of the first rank in different parts of Europe.’ 8 He prepared students for …
Assemblies | Advertisement | Dance | North America
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