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Masonic brotherhood [ Rituals & Ceremonies / Associational culture ]
… of a Lodge must be good and true Men, free-born, and of mature and discreet Age, no Bondmen no Women, no immoral or scandalous men, but of good Report’. En 1738, la deuxième édition des Constitutions s’intéresse non plus seulement au … féminine est plus forte encore et demeure aujourd’hui le plus souvent la règle : ‘no Bondmen no Women, no immoral or scandalous men, but of good Report’. Lorsque des sœurs britanniques sont admises au XVIII e siècle, leur nombre est très …
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… ones should be banned. New forms of public sociability such as masquerading were repeatedly described as dangerous and scandalous because disguise gave too many freedoms to the sexes. The Spectator consistently satirised lower-rank male … used a female persona ; the two Female Tatlers 15 and the Parrot (1728) by Mrs Prattle. The latter, who declared ‘Scandal is the woman’s weapon’ 16 and vindicated women’s right to write scathing political satires against Walpole’s …
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… but that the company did not play at cards. 10 Diffident of cards, the Bluestockings also disregarded politics and scandal but aimed to combat the domestic vision of women, showing that men and women could converse on a foot of …
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London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… and it may be that their supposed indignation was actually a ploy designed to promote the success of the play through scandal. Aphra Behn —the first woman to make a living from writing for the theatre—regularly ascribed failures in her …
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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… society sociability in Paris between 1792 and 1795 . 8 Williams’s choice to remain in France (where she caused a huge scandal by living with John Hurford Stone) and her continued belief in the ideals of the first Revolution increasingly …
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Periodicals [ Print culture ]
… reflections on the duel or the drunkard for example. Defoe appeared in his periodical as the secretary of a club, the ‘ Scandal Club ‘ , supposed to judge the wrongs and abuses of very different situations, sometimes linked to the …
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Flora Tristan [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
… foyer, le dévergondage est sans nulle retenue et la prostitution s’y montre à découvert ; ce sont des scènes tellement scandaleuses que la plume se refuse à les tracer. (Tristan 264-283) 16 . Tristan p. 114. Véritable 'sortie' 17 pour une …
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