… like The Tatler (1709-1711) or The Lover (1714) were not only available in coffeehouses but also through private subscriptions. Women, who were barred access to coffeehouses, could therefore read them at home. Their literacy and …
… social and political events. In the latter two cases, the club or library entrance fee was used to finance several subscriptions to newspapers and magazines. The periodicity of periodicals could thus provide the reason for the next …
… range of philanthropic, social, and cultural activities’. These ranged from ‘rescuing fallen women […] to organising subscriptions for publishing works by deserving authors’ 4 ,especially female authors in the case of Montagu. In 1781, at …
… Thus she (unsuccessfully) tried to get Dr Charles Burney appointed as organist in the Queen’s Band in 1782 and collected subscriptions for Frances Burney’s novel Camilla in 1796. 11 Four volumes of Boscawen’s letters to Hester Pitt, Lady …
Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Politics | Women
… have been at a loss to understand him’ (I, 325). About four weeks later, Robinson visited Blake in his home to buy ‘two subscriptions for his Job’ (I, 331) and again with the German painter Jakob Götzenberger (1802–1866). After Blake’s …