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Street sociability [ Cities ]
… Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘Miseries of London’, Wikimedia Commons, 1807. Abstract In a world of pedestrians streets and roads formed the most demotic of social spaces. In eighteenth-century Britain, it was on the street that gentlemen and gentlewomen rubbed shoulders with hawkers, paupers and a varied cast of social inferiors. The streets demanded new rules of behaviour, new ‘rules of the road’. By reference to the practice of everyday life, the … explores the street as a uniquely complex site of social exchange and sociability. Places > Cities Keywords Crime Streets Rules Women In eighteenth-century British towns, almost everyone was a pedestrian. It was on the street that …
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Rules for Walking the Streets (1737) [ Places / Practices ]
… Rules for walking the Streets and other Publick Places If we walk in the Park, or any other Publick Place, with a Superior, we are always to … the Miseries of Servitude.---A Laundress from her two pair of Stairs Casement, calls out to a Fellow running along the Streets, with a colour'd Handkerchief about his Head, Joe, what you're going to see the Prisoners go by, I shall call … assembled, as one passes along, is a most impertinent Curiosity. Persons of Figure, when they chuse to amble the Publick Streets, should always appear in a Dress suitable to their Dignit; not only for the sake of the Way, and to prevent …
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The Spectator, No. 454 (11 August 1712) [ Places / Transport ]
… with Children of a new Hour. This Satisfaction encreased as I moved towards the City; and gay Signs, well disposed Streets, magnificent publick Structures, and wealthy Shops, adorned with contented Faces, made the Joy still rising till … my Hearing on the Subjects of Cards, Dice, Love, Learning, and Politicks. The last Subject kept me till I heard the Streets in the Possession of the Bellman, who had now the World to himself, and cry'd, Past Two of Clock . This rous'd … Day of People of Fashion began now to Break, and Carts and Hacks were mingled with Equipages of Show and Vanity..." … Streets … Text taken from Spectator, no 454 (August 11, 1712), by Steele. Full text of The Spectator from …
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A Description of a City Shower (1711) [ Places ]
… the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies with them as they go: Filths of all hues and odors, seem to tell What streets they sailed from, by the sight and smell. They, as each torrent drives with rapid force From Smithfield, or St. … tumbling down the flood. … Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds and join to save their wigs. … Streets … Jonathan Swift, "A Description of a City Shower", Miscellanies in prose and verse. London: printed for John …
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… a whole relied more and more on rising levels of literacy. Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Clubs Family Fiction Streets While reading might be seen as a solitary act of perception, contributing to the construction of individual … The Country Book Club: A Poem (London, 1788). Reading the social landscape Reading was also taken outdoors into the streets or roads of Britain with the use of street names and roadsigns that helped people locate certain places and … and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). … Clubs … Family … Fiction … Streets … Reading …
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Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… Matt. Bramble to Dr. Lewis (London, 20 May) DEAR DOCTOR, London is literally new to me; new in its streets, houses, and even in its situation; as the Irishman said, ‘London is now gone out of town.’ What I left open fields, producing hay and corn, I now find covered with streets and squares, and palaces, and churches. I am credibly informed, that in the space of seven years, eleven thousand … of the present age, that London and Westminster are much better paved and lighted than they were formerly. The new streets are spacious, regular, and airy; and the houses generally convenient. The bridge at Blackfriars is a noble …
Fiction | Towns | Correspondence
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Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… Tu, the Bugles, or the Damned Crew, a group of ‘gentlemen’ called the Mohocks was rumored to have terrorized London’s streets in the Spring of 1712. While little evidence exists for the Mohocks being an organized group with a shared motif … upper-class band of marauding rakes, anecdotally described as ‘Peers and Persons of Quality’, 8 who caroused in the streets of London, assailing innocent passers-by at random between March and April of 1712. The Spectator called them a … asocial behavior, the question of their existence is far from settled. As a gang of rakes supposedly carousing in the streets of London, they fit into an enduring tradition such as the Tityre Tu, the Bugles, the Hectors, and the Damned …
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