Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… consumption of snuff was seen as impolite and unruly. In an essay from The Universal Spectator titled ‘The Art of female conversation’, the author gently mocks the futility of female conversation and suggests considering the use of the snuffbox as a ‘polite Aid to Conversation’ to remedy female logorrhea: 5 . Joseph Addison, The Spectator n°138, 8 August 1711. ‘In all Female …
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