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Melancholy [ Feelings and Emotions ]

Solitude [ Feelings and Emotions ]

Valentine Greatrakes [ Science ]

Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… culture. Views by contemporaries were widely divergent 2 ; in Smollett’s epistolary novel Humphry Clinker (1771), the melancholy uncle Matthew Bramble visiting London writes satirically about Ranelagh, ‘One half of the company are …

Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]

… spaces on the page, we are given a glimpse of this conflictual or fluctuating sociability: ‘ Saturday 15th […] We had a melancholy letter from Coleridge just at Bed-time – . It distressed me very much & I resolved upon going to Keswick the …