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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… Theatre Women Best known as a novelist and chronicler of London’s literary circles, Frances Burney was in fact born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, in 1752, and spent the first eight years of her life there. Some eighty years later, when compiling her Memoirs of Dr Burney (1832), she remembered the sociability of King’s Lynn as characterized by ‘inertia’, lambasting the mid-eighteenth century provinces for their ‘love of frippery, … and not there alone, nor alone in any other small town, but in every village, every hamlet, nay every cottage in the kingdom; and though mental cultivation is as slowly gradual, and as precarious of circulation, as Genius […] still the …
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Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Horace Walpole writes that the visitors would find the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cumberland (another son of the King), but also ‘children from the Foundling Hospital.’ (Letter to Conway, 29 June 1744) Ranelagh closed in 1803. Access … ‘One half of the company are following at the other’s tails, in an eternal circle […] while the other half are drinking hot water, under the denomination of tea, till nine or ten o’clock at night, to keep them awake for the rest of the … (31 May). The last words show that she is happy to be admitted to the haunts of the upper tiers of society, while marking the mix of social groups, both ‘great’ and ‘rich’ visitors (or seemingly so). 2 . See the website: …
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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… musical accompaniment, spend the night dancing or gambling and finally reach the climactic, and quasi-ritualistic, unmasking. 1 . Meghan Kobza, ‘Dazzling or Fantastically Dull? Re-Examining the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade’, Journal … with these inferior Masquerades; for these are indeed no other than the Temples of Drunkenness, Lewdness, and all Kind of Debauchery. 2 As Terry Castle notes, mentions of masquerades for the lower classes were typically commented upon … Colonel Fitzroy who also afterwards appeared in another character. – Cherokee Chief, Mr Meadows, a new and very striking masque. – Cyrus, Sir William Wrottesley. – A Double Man, half Miller and half Chimney-sweeper, Sir Richard Philips: …
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