… rank. Her epistolary novel The Sylph explores the relationship between high society, sociability and suicide. People > Aristocracy People > Fashion Mots-clés Correspondence Fashion Fiction Gambling Politics Suicide Georgiana Cavendish, the …
… Frances Boscawen strengthened her bluestocking connections, entertaining in London as well as in the country . People > Aristocracy People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Bluestockings Conversation Correspondence Politics Women Born in 1719, …
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… whose labour and service polite society rested. The subscribers of the 1712-13 edition were drawn from the ranks of the aristocracy, merchants, financiers, and officeholders. 19 Steele owned, through his first wife, a considerable …
… when broaching political subjects, usurped the privileges of parliament and encroached on the preserves of the aristocracy and gentry. The eloquence was also castigated as low and inadequate. 13 Critics relentlessly mocked the low …
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