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At the Ball (1815) [ Practices ]
… entreaties for her early attendance, for her arriving there as soon as possible after themselves, for the purpose of taking her opinion as to the propriety and comfort of the rooms before any other person came, that she could not refuse … Frank was standing by her, but not steadily; there was a restlessness, which showed a mind not at ease. He was looking about, he was going to the door, he was watching for the sound of other carriages, —impatient to begin, or afraid of … Elton appeared; and all the smiles and the proprieties passed. “But Miss Bates and Miss Fairfax” said Mr. Weston, looking about. “We thought you were to bring them.” The mistake had been slight. The carriage was sent for them now. Emma …
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… Image George Romney, 'Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante', Wikimedia Commons, 1785. Abstract As British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples between 1764 and 1800, Sir William welcomed guests from across Europe. He showed them his vast … Aristocracy People > Travel Keywords Dance Diplomacy Entertainement Grand Tour Italy Travel As British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples, Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) welcomed guests from across Europe. 1 Described in the seventeenth … but he also owned the Villa Angelica, the Casino at Posillipo (later named Villa Emma), and a home in Caserta, near King Ferdinand and Queen Maria Carolina’s palace. For more on Sir William and Emma Hamilton, see Ersy Contogouris, Emma …
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The Spectator, No. 324 (12 March 1712) [ People ]
… d'éclat . The particular Talents by which these Misanthropes are distinguished from one another, consist in the various kinds of Barbarities which they execute upon their Prisoners. Some are celebrated for a happy Dexterity in tipping the … rather Barbarities, on the Limbs which they expose. But these I forbear to mention, because they can't but be very shocking to the Reader as well as the Spectator. In this manner they carry on a War against Mankind; and by the standing Maxims of their Policy, are to enter into no Alliances but one, and that is Offensive and …
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Household Words (1852) [ Practices ]
… mixed, as was usual in that age, a curious degree of unconscious cruelty. Coercion for the outward man, and rabid physicking for the inward man, were then the specifics for lunacy. Chains, straw, filthy solitude, darkness, and starvation; … the instrument is thrust in and allows the food or medicine to be introduced without difficulty. A sternutatory of any kind" (say a pepper-castor of cayenne, or half an ounce of rappee) "always forces the mouth open, in spite of the … whom I quote, "the patient should be kept in a dark room, confined by one leg, with metallic manacles on the wrist; the skin being less liable to be injured," -- here the Good Doctor becomes especially considerate and mild, -- "the skin being …
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… Touch In The Miser Married (1813), Catherine Hutton’s heroine, Charlotte Montgomery, notes: ‘Dancing 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 taking it a little after the time, it would be very ill-natured to withdraw it – unless one did not like him. For my part … men and women. Her comment should encourage reflection on the conditions under which this experience of touch had this kind of intensity: was it the slightly forbidden element of this touch – the tentative extension of the formal privilege …
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Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Image ‘Premieres danseuses and their admirers in the Green Room of the King's Theatre Opera House’,1822, Mary Evans Picture Library, 4220-21915208. Image Vignette from Thomas Rowlandson, ‘This … wealthy attendees, whose theatre presence was part of their societal duty. As this arena opened to soldiers and the working class, it became a currency for increasing one’s status in one’s own social circle. Some patrons of dance considered … attendance was deployed to introduce potential business partners, create business agreements, marriage matchmaking and exert social dominance to elevate one’s social standing. These acts brought more recognition and possible …
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… rooms and ensured that the rules of the rooms were followed to the letter. These figures were revered, known as ‘Kings’ and ‘Queens’ who regulated the space. 7 Richard ‘Beau’ Nash was one of these ‘Kings of Bath’ whose dictates were law. Indeed, ‘Beau’ Nash required the Duchess of Queensberry to remove her apron, which was forbidden in Nash’s assembly room rules, remarking that ‘none but Abigails appeared in white aprons [… to which] the good-natured dutchess [sic] acquiesced in his …
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Refinement of one’s person, and opportunities to display this in select groups, were essential to elite distinction, making establishment of a Philadelphia Dancing Assembly a desideratum. Founded in 1749, the Assembly thrived, even into the … hub, and political hotbed, Philadelphia was, by the mid-eighteenth century, the second city of the British Empire, making its social weight significant within the colonies and beyond. Of this, the city’s established and aspiring elites … and J. R. Pole (eds.), Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), p. 345-83. 2 . E. Digby Baltzell, Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper …
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