… of his first biography, published shortly after his death in 1761, draws the portrait of a riotous young man and a womanizer who, after a few years at Jesus College, Oxford, and an unsuccessful attempt at pursuing a military career, …
Conversation
[ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… role conversation played in developing not just knowledge but the mind and critical judgement. As late eighteeth-century woman of letters Hester Chapone observed, 'it is almost impossible that an evening should pass in mutual endeavours to … in company, citing their ‘boundless intemperance of tongue’. 15 Instead, an ‘illuminated countenance’ would show that a woman understands what a man is saying almost as 'unequivocally as language would do'. 16 Women’s conversation and …
Children | Controversy | Gentleman | Masculinity | Politeness | Science | Women
… 5 A liar was a disreputable character: ‘It is most certain, that the reputation of chastity is not so necessary for a woman, as that of veracity is for a man’ (79). Chesterfield’s liars included even those who told lies to entertain their … S he then goes on to excoriate poor Lady Miller for trying to be fashionable: ‘ all her success is to seem an ordinary Woman in very common Life with fine Cloathes on’ ( Ibid. ) . Few people could have guessed from her demeanour in public …
… Gregory recommended that a close relationship with a man could often be less dangerous than friendship with another woman. 14 The rise of polite culture may even have enhanced the anxiety surrounding false friendship. This was a time … character is exonerated from the stigma which calumny attached to it; and his courage rises in estimation […] But were a WOMAN to attempt such an expedient, however strong her sense of injury, however invincible her fortitude, or important …
Gentleman
[ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… of F.M.L. Thompson (Manchester University Press, 1996), pp. 241-58. 3 . Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (London: HarperPress, 2007), p. 23. The social behaviour expected of the traditional, patrician …
… assembled to drink it. While servants would undertake the labour of setting up the equipage and heating the water, the woman host would take the required quantity of tea-leaves from a tea chest, and add them and later the hot water to the …