Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
… clear that he spent a lot of time talking about and writing up reports of other people’s behavior, gleaned from his conversations with others. We might think that this is part of a circulation of information that is an essential … gossip’. 5 . Such as Max Gluckman’s ‘Gossip and Scandal’, Current Anthropology (4:3, June 1963), p. 307-316. Clearly, conversation may involve the passing of social information without any moral judgment; but as gossip it involves a … women might become reluctant to be associated with them). In male circles, men were accepted for their wit, talents, conversation, shared commercial or professional interests or simply their company. Their behaviour (past or present) …
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