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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… can be seen among other markers of modernity which accompanied the growth of the public sphere, including spaces like coffeehouses, salons or assembly rooms in England and France, and activities like art exhibitions. These commercial …
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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… influence, was a very powerful and wealthy acquaintance for him. Goldsmith explains that Nash used to wait in Smyrna coffee-house, just ‘to receive a bow from the Prince, or the Duchess of Marlborough‘ (Goldsmith 128). But the duchess …
Fashion | Gaming | Manners | Politeness | Refinement | Spa | Wit
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… the young merchants about the Exchange for two hours every day at noon, except Saturdays, at a toy-shop near Garraway’s coffee-house. There will be likewise taught the ceremony of the snuff-box, or rules for offering snuff to a stranger, a …
Collecting | Consumption | Emotions | Fashion | Friendship | Luxury | North America | Snuff
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… find friends or husbands: they escaped the confines of the family house, could go to such an innovative institution as a coffee-house for the ladies 27 and enjoy the pleasures of the imagination to the full, thanks to the varied cultural …
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