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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]

… Studio’, from The Comforts of Bath series, Wikimedia Commons, 1798. Abstract As British portrait painters’ working spaces evolved from craftsmen’s workshops into painting rooms supplemented with exhibition rooms and fitted out to … Studio. Mediating Artistic Sociability in a Polite and Commercial Age’, in Valérie Capdeville and Pierre Labrune (eds.), Sociable Spaces in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Material and Visual Experience , Études anglaises (vol. 74, n° 3, 2021), … Studio. Mediating Artistic Sociability in a Polite and Commercial Age’, in Valérie Capdeville and Pierre Labrune (eds.), Sociable Spaces in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Material and Visual Experience , Études anglaises (vol. 74, n° 3, 2021), …

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]

… David, Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle 1790-1798 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). Gilmartin, Kevin, Sociable Spaces: Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). James, Felicity, … David, Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle 1790-1798 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). Gilmartin, Kevin, Sociable Spaces: Locating Culture in Romantic-Period Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). James, …

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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… French Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). Page-Jones, Kimberley, Léonard-Roques, Véronique, ‘Festive Spaces and Patriotic Sociabilities in the Letters of Rachel Charlotte Biggs and Helen Maria Williams’, in Valérie Capdeville et Pierre Labrune (eds.), Sociable Spaces in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Material and Visual Experience , Études anglaises (vol. 74, n° 3, … in the Letters of Rachel Charlotte Biggs and Helen Maria Williams’, in Valérie Capdeville et Pierre Labrune (eds.), Sociable Spaces in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Material and Visual Experience , Études anglaises (vol. 74, n° 3, …

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Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]

… facilities, situated alongside major roads in the provinces, and town centres, and in cities. They also functioned as sociable spaces for locals, travellers, tradesmen, and politicians. In the hierarchy of eighteenth-century drinking-places, inns … John Chartres has called ‘the golden age of the British inn’ 1 , this institution fulfilled a number of rather diverse sociable functions, ranging from the sale of food and drink to being a forum for local politics. The inn, much older than …

Drinking | Hospitality | Travel

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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]

… playing’, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1755. Abstract Pleasure gardens were a type of eighteenth-century public spaces which offered diverse forms of entertainment for their visitors. Their spatial design coincided with the growth of … Entertainement Fashion Gardens Music Nature Taste Pleasure gardens were a particular type of eighteenth-century sociable spaces. Usually privately-owned, these enclosed outdoor grounds welcomed paying visitors who sought various … assembly rooms in England and France, and activities like art exhibitions. These commercial venues would also encourage sociable interactions that promoted mixing and mingling in ‘the newly inclusive arena of public’. 3 Initially, the …

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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]

… London, NPG 412, 1822. Abstract Hannah More, a woman of letters, was a Christian activist and philanthropist. Her sociable life in Britain’s major social centers, London and Bath, enabled her to use her closeness to the bluestocking … Demers, The World of Hannah More (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996), p. 20. Three cities, as renowned sociable spaces, shaped More’s personality: Bristol where her literary career was launched, London to which she made regular trips …

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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]

… In one of his first publications, The Christian Hero (1701), he articulated his conviction that God had created man as a sociable animal: ‘We are fram'd for mutual Kindness, good Will and Service, and therefore our Blessed Saviour has been … Steele was clearly a man capable of developing strong ties both to groups and to individuals, and was naturally drawn to sociable spaces, including the theatre, for which he wrote plays. In 1714 he became the manager of Drury Lane . He was also …

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Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]

… Coffeehouses were key centres of sociability in eighteenth-century Britain. They played an important role both as real spaces for social interaction and as virtual places in which normative ideals of urban and polite sociability were … as the alehouse or the tavern, the rise of the coffeehouse is now best understood as the emergence of a complementary sociable institution. Places > Institutions Places > Food & Drink venues Keywords Coffeehouses Drinking Public sphere … famous Club in the age of George III, clubs and coffeehouses played a complementary role in satisfying the need for sociable spaces. 9 9 . Peter Clark, British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800: The Origins of an Associational World, …

Coffeehouses | Drinking | Public sphere | Politics

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Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]

… on British affluent, well-heeled theatregoers to uncouth, standing-room only on-lookers, as a conduit for support and sociable endorsement without which the art form of ballet would not survive. The functionality and intersectionality of … was a key to respectable success in ballet and society. When thinking about the long eighteenth-century body and the spaces it inhabited, Hannah Arendt writes: ‘[…] the functionality and intersectionality of the body within these sociable ‘spaces of appearances’ of the theatre show the interconnectedness of the organizational strata, one level …

Audience | Commodities | Dance | Theatre

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