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Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]
Conflict | Friendship | Gender | Sex | Women
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Casanova in London (1763) [ People ]
… the daughter.” “Quite so, quite so.” Sophie was standing by, and after kissing her fondly Lady Harrington said,— “If you love yourself, you ought to love her, for she is the image of you.” “Yes, it is a freak of nature.” “I think there is something more than a freak in …
Assemblies | Music | Women
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Preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s letters (1724) [ People / Practices ]
… to distinguish that natural elegance, that delicacy of sentiment and observation, that easy gracefulness, and lovely simplicity, (which is the perfection of writing) and in which these Letters exceed all that has appeared in this …
Women | Travel | Curiosity
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Autobiography, 1784 [ Places / Practices ]
… from top to bottom. Her apartment opened through this; for all were passage rooms, and a small pair of stairs led to a lovely cold bath. I have not done yet. Behind my magnificent bed of white- watered tabby, and very clean, a door opened …
Grand Tour | Women | Conversation
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
Art | Children | Commerce | Conversation | Exhibitions | Fashion | Portrait | Women
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… (1713), bi-weeklies like The Free-Thinker (1718-1721), or yet triweeklies like The Tatler (1709-1711) or The Lover (1714) were not only available in coffeehouses but also through private subscriptions. Women, who were barred … conversation topics and rumours as a source of inspiration. Other papers like The Female Tatler (1709-1710) or The Lover could transcribe the conversations of a fictitious team of writers meeting in a club. 5 . The Spectator n° 16, vol. …
Commerce | Correspondence | Femininity | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… ‘such as fortitude, justice, wisdom, and the like’ (Burke 92, 101). These theories associated feminine beauty with love and weakness, and the masculine with terror and strength, attributing contrasting physical and emotional signifiers … Help of Speech. [...] How much nobler is the Contemplation of Beauty heightened by Virtue, and commanding our Esteem and Love, while it draws our Observation? How faint and Spiritless are the Charms of a Coquet, when compared with the real Loveliness of [...] Innocence, Piety, Good-humour, and Truth; Virtues which add a new Softness to her Sex, and even …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… spell, Nor in the social circle dwell; In vain shall listening crowds approve, They'll praise you, but they will not love. What is this power you're loth to mention, This charm, this witchcraft? 'tis ATTENTION: Mute Angel, yes; thy looks … Our jealous souls no longer burn, Nor hate thee, though thou shine in turn; The sweet atonement screens the fault, And love and praise are cheaply bought. With mild complacency to hear, Though somewhat long the tale appear, The dull …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
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