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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]

… home, and enable Grand Tourists and their families to continue consolidating and expanding on their continental socio-political networks. A typical starting point for attaining the skills was to attend an academy. Initially founded by … for example, George Herbert, later 11 th earl of Pembroke, bounced between Versailles, the salon run by the Parisian hostess, Amélie de Boufflers, Duchess de Lauzun, and much wilder libertine sets. 4 In certain locations - metropolis like … and reasons to travel in this period. 9 . Donald Winch, ‘Smith, Adam (bap. 1723, d. 1790), moral philosopher and political economist’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online. The eighteenth century saw a growing number of …

White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]

… required to appreciate hyperbole simply did not appeal to moralists.  7 . William Paley, The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, 2 vols., 4th ed. (London, 1787), vol 1, ch. XV, p. 184-85. Fiction was too close to the lie to be … that t he task of keeping on the straight path between courtesy and sincerity was particularly difficult for a social hostess : she had to civilize her guests by means of politeness and to entertain them by dint of social grace, and that … lies – which require a particular social skill – may also have offered a form of social empower ment for women. For a hostess or guest to withhold the truth in a conversation that is later recited for a different audience, for instance by …

Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]

… theatrical performance of Colley Cibber’s The Provok’d Husband is turned to her shame by her ill-meaning and unwilling hostess ( The Wanderer , 98, 101). The novel, thus, may be read as a description of the difficulties women of the … including the advancement of polite letters. How cumbersome soever her language, her opinions concerning the value of political debate still resound today . Thus, she wrote about The Literary Club : Dissensions through politics must … 257-58). Interestingly, The Memoirs of Dr. Burney also mention a ‘job opportunity’ that Burney herself declined: the political hostess Frances Crewe had suggested a literary weekly paper, to be called ‘The Breakfast Table’, during the …

Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]

… (1828) and Social Life in England and France, from the French Revolution in 1789 to that of July 1830 (1831) map out political as well as social and cultural history. 7  In 1844 she published her complete works. 8 The main source about … works of art (like Damer) and no literary works in the genres favoured by other women writers, she eventually became the hostess of days gone by. Share Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin Partager sur Twitter Partager par Email …