… fame rests mostly on her literary letters to other bluestockings and their associates. Writing to her sister, the novelist Sarah Scott, Montagu confessed, ‘ I don’t see how a sociable Being can live without writing ‘ , and the …
… repurposing, or demolition of many assembly rooms, Gillian Russell argues that, based on her analysis of the 1794 novel Caleb Williams , the 1790s was the ‘cusp of the time the assembly room began to be conceived nostalgically in …
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… masquerades almost immediately found their place in fiction. As Castle demonstrates (114-5), the modern novel and the masquerade were by nature related, as both had a democratic potential and expressed tensions between …