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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]

… expatriates, as well as the opinions on British social practices she revealed in her autobiography. People > Art and Literature Keywords Women portrait studio Salon Travel aristocracy French Revolution emigration England napoleonic era Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) was the daughter of Louis Vigée, a pastellist, and the elder sister of … disappeared. Following English proprieties, the women were segregated from the men during musical evenings, and the Napoleonic court, highly militarised and made up in large part of parvenus, seemed to lack elegance and refinement. Vigée …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… chronicler of social practices and historical events from the Revolution to the Restoration. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) showed a sustained appetence for … events from the Revolution to the Restoration. … Women … Salon … Letters … travelogue … French Revolution … Girondins … napoleonic era … National specificities … sociable spaces … Helen Maria Williams …

Celebrity [ Publicity ]

… only entered everyday culture, in England at any rate, with the explosive growth of the popular press and mass literacy at the end of the nineteenth century’. 2 1 . Antoine Lilti, Figures publiques : l’invention de la célébrité … media ecology in which words and images about people, and especially about exceptionally interesting people, could proliferate. 4 . Joseph Roach, It (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), p. 1, 4, 12, and passim. This distinction … with celebrity. Monarchy did not fade away in the eighteenth century. Even the French Revolution was replaced with a Napoleonic empire and ultimately a Bourbon Restoration; in Britain, the Georgian monarchs found a new cultural position …

Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]

… the object of attraction rather than your head.’ 2 Women’s buckles were less visible than men’s, since they were generally smaller and could be concealed under long skirts, but this made the flash of a jewelled buckle all the more tantalising. 2 . Literary and Fashionable Magazine (1809), p. 301. Early shoe buckles were fairly simple articles, with a prong that pivoted … boots, or shoes tied with laces. The ostentation of buckles had little place in the more austere male fashions of the Napoleonic Wars or the Regency. 9 . Bernard and Therle Hughes, Georgian Shoe Buckles (London: GLC, 1972), p. 6. From this …