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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… century. She was a towering figure in circles promoting literary sociability, and a respected literary critic after her publication of an essay on Shakespeare refuting Voltaire’s criticism of the dramatist. Affluent and generous, she set her … to Romanticism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 68. 2 . See Emma Major, ‘The Politics of Sociability: The Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium’, in Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg (eds), Reconsidering the … Now! The Evolution of a Social Role (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), p. 17-54. Major, Emma, ’The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium’, in Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg (eds.), Reconsidering the …
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Nouvelles de la République des Lettres (1779) [ Practices ]
… a porté l'Académie des Sciences, mais nous avons attendu qu'il eût pris toute sa consistance, afin de lui donner la publicité qu'il mérite. On la doit aux soins de M. de la Blancherie, Agent général de Correspondance ; pour les Sciences … leur main dont il est porteur. Les Etangers & les Voyageurs, ne sont admis qu'autant qu'ils sont revêtus d'un caractère public , ou présentés, ou amenés de la manière qu'il vient d'être désignée. On annonce dans le Bulletin des … des Ouvrages en différents genres, soit qu'ils en soient Auteurs ou Propriétaires, soit pour en faire jouir le Public, soit pour s'en procurer le débit, peuvent disposer des Salles destinées à cet usage, pour les y placer d'une …
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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… Met Museum, 32.35(80), 1724. Abstract Masquerades – sociable assemblies of masked participants – developed into forms of public entertainment in eighteenth-century London, often welcoming crowds in the fashionable centres of the metropolis, … the masquerade as a form of sociable entertainment developed in a twofold manner: as a crowd event of the newly emerging public sphere and a selective elitist assembly, deriving from the tradition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century … that, just like musical concerts, theatrical productions and operas, they gradually entered the realm of more accessible public entertainment. Although it was considerably expensive – Kobza (170) has estimated the lowest possible cost of …
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Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]
… this country however, provided they are carried on in private; but for a man to be seen hand in hand with his wife, in public, would not be tolerated. At Cardinal Berni’s assembly, which is usually more crowded than any in Rome, the company …
Grand Tour | Italy | Assemblies | Conversation | Diplomacy
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Letter to Samuel Crisp (1775) [ People / Practices ]
… soft & spirited: All his Features are animated & charming. I am extremely pleased to find that he gains ground with the Public Daily; his friends encrease every opera Night. The more they hear, the more they like him, especially as ' (at) …
Correspondence | Music | Assemblies
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… a town’s mapping and layout, as urban planning reinforced notions of a collective, corporate identity (Borsay 80). Public buildings like assembly rooms contributed significantly to the overall image and gentrification of a town, … life in the town by the mid-1830s. 14 The use of the assembly rooms in Leeds featured a similar decline, as the 1835 publication, Walks Through Leeds , observed that the rooms ‘had rarely been opened in recent years’, before finally …
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… while keeping her house near Saint James's Place. To her, court sociability now became perceived from the inside: the public dimension of her contacts with the royal family turned private, since the Royal couple occasionally stepped into …
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Correspondence | Court | Ireland | Propriety | Women
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Parish churches [ Institutions ]
… Parish exchanges spilled over into further local hubs, prompting Surrey’s Grand Jury to remind the county in 1736 that public houses were intended for ‘the receipt […] of Travellers […] [rather than] the Entertainment & harbouring of […] …
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