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Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… ‘Taste I always pretended to and must own I shall be greatly disappointed if you do not approve that which I have displayed in Audley Street’ (Aspinall-Oglander, I, 129). To be polite, the letter continues, she had invited his brother as … to her country, and remained conscious of social distinctions. Boscawen’s first biographer, Aspinall-Oglander, downplayed her interest in politics, but as Elaine Chalus reminds us, ‘the best hostesses [...] were charming, good at … loyalties, Boscawen regularly cajoled her more reclusive friend to see her in London, chatting about the operas, plays, assemblies, masquerades and balls she herself attended. London was not the only location for her hospitality: …
Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Politics | Women
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
Audience | Coffeehouses | Conversation | Public sphere | Science
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
Art | Children | Commerce | Conversation | Exhibitions | Fashion | Portrait | Women
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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… In poems (Nahum Tate’s Panacea: a Poem upon Tea [1700], and Peter Motteux’s A Poem in Praise of Tea [1712]), as well as plays (Congreve, Way of the World [1700]), the tea-table was repeatedly represented as a synecdoche for the sociable …
Conversation | Domesticity | Exoticism | Furniture | Gossip | Politeness | Public sphere | Tea | Tea-table
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Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… almost four months from her first visit to a Sunday evening on 2 March 1775, during which she commended Esther Burney’s play on the harpsichord, before she finally agreed to sing in June. Frances reported the dilemma: ‘We were all of us …
Art | Audience | Bluestockings | Conversation | Music
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
Art | Collecting | Commerce | Conversation | Correspondence | Exhibitions | Friendship | Patronage | Poetry | Salons
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Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]
Conflict | Conversation | Diaries | Notebook | Romanticism
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Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]
… is little sense, however, of the spoken word in such portraits: lips are never parted. Rather, these are diagrammatic displays of the physical gestures that framed sociable exchange: hands arranged according to the edicts of the conduct … common and popular sociable pastimes of the day. Figures characteristically lay down and pick up cards, whilst partners playing whist confer about their hands. Women preside over elaborate tea tables, often with one hand placed … not uncommon to commission more than one version of such a portrait, so that two or more of the sitters could own and display it. This is particularly notable with conversation pieces executed in Italy in the second half of the century, …
Conversation | Painting | Portrait | Tea-table
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