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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… theatricals developed into the boisterous satire of Austen’s teenage writings and informs the more sophisticated social play of her mature novels, most particularly Emma (1815). Socially, the Austens were on the margins of the gentry class, … social order as she negotiates her way through the crowds at the Pump Room, the Assembly Rooms and the theatre, where playgoers are as much spectators of each other as of the play. Commercial spaces of the new leisure economy, like circulating libraries and retail premises, also serve as sites …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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Spas [ Health ]
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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Pickwick Papers (1836-37) [ Places ]
… to be always snuffing his candles and staring about him. “I can’t make this out,” said he, when he came home from the play one night, and was drinking a glass of cold grog, with his back to the wall, in order that he mightn’t be able to …
Fiction | Inn
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… of the existing textual conventions and their transformation, with letters (a reading-writing form of communication) playing a vital role in familiarizing the growing audience with such new printed media like novels, biographies or … place while members of the household were involved in other activities of various types, most notably when children were playing or when women were working. For instance, in 1785, the bluestocking Frances Boscawen recommended James Boswell ’s … Richardson ’s Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa (1748) to Frances Burney ’s Evelina (1778), apart from displaying the action and characters’ through exchanges in a letter form, additionally documented modes of social formation …
Clubs | Family | Fiction | Streets
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
Antagonism | Conflict | Fiction | Parody | Rivalry
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
Correspondence | Fashion | Fiction | Gambling | Politics | Suicide
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Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
Dissent | Fiction | Friendship | Tories | Satire | Whigs
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… National, the Club des Constitutionnels and the Club des Valois, most of which were based in the Palais-Royal. He also played a particularly active role in the Club des Jacobins (which he joined on his return from England in October 1790) …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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