Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… 2022). By no means all of the socializing that took place in the home was intimate mixing among friends. While hosting public days was one of the socio-political duties of the summer for women from politically active aristocratic families, … to her husband: I cannot help flattering myself that you think your choice of a wife happy in that point – in your public character. [...] I cannot but reflect with indignation how much ‘tis in a woman’s power to distress a brave or … hearth, from whence a man should draw the best sources of social felicity’ (Aspinall-Oglander, I, 206). Maintaining a public character had its price: she had spent as little as she could, she told her husband, ‘consistent (I must add) with …
Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Politics | Women
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