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Saint James's [ Cities ]
… of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 1st series (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), vol. 3, p. 409; The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs Paget Toynbee, 16 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903), vol. 3, February 12, 1756, p. … A. Selwyn would put it, ‘a small society governed England and gambled in St James’s Street’. 18 18 . George Selwyn, his Letters and his Life, ed. E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899, p. 19. Partager Partager sur … West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Muralt, Béat-Louis (de), Letters Describing the Character and Customs of the English and French Nations (London: T. Edlin, 1726). Rendell, Jane, ‘ …
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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… amongst the most fashionable, Nash was an eccentric. He always wore an expensive ‘cream-coloured beaver' ( Anstey, letter XII: l.96) and a tricorn hat: ‘his dress was tawdry, tho’ not perfectly genteel ‘ (Goldsmith 49). He was not a … Bath au XVIIIe siècle. Les fastes d’une cité palladienne (Rennes: PUR, 2000). Leffever, Rowland, professional gambler, 'letters to Richard ('Beau') Nash re gambling debts', 1752-1761 (Acc 662). Bath and North East Somerset Record Office. … Oliver Goldsmith, The Life of Richard Nash ( 1762 ). Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide (1766), p. 70-80 (' Letter XI . A Description of the Ball, with an Episode on Beau Nash'). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology The Life of Beau Nash …
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Horace Walpole (and the English garden) [ Art and Literature / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… de Strawberry Hill (Lannion: Travaux d'Investigation et de Recherche, 2020). Haggerty, George, E., Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century (Lewisburg [Pa.]: Bucknell University Press, 2011). Harney, … Jardins romanesques au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Horace Walpole, Letter to Conway, Thursday 12 February 1756 . Horace Wapole, Strawberry-hill ( 1774 ). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Saint James's (1756) Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) To Horace Walpole (1773) Strawberry-hill (1774) To Mary Berry (1795) … Par la richesse de …
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… , and ‘the queen of watering-places’ became the playing field of opposed forces, both centrifugal and centripetal. In letters and in fiction, Bath could be celebrated for its sociability or conversely lambasted for the poor quality of its … Reaktion Books, 1995), p. 57: ‘sterility’ was perceived as a ‘social disease.’ 10 . Alain Kerhervé has shown the role of letters in the circulation of spa gossip between friends: ‘Writing Letters from Georgian Spas: The Impressions of a Few English Ladies,’ in Annick Cossic and Patrick Galliou (eds.), Spas …
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Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… needle cases or purses were frequent participants in the traffic of pocket-sized keepsakes between women. In a tender letter to her close friend Jane Pollard dated 1788, Dorothy Wordsworth writes: 7 . Edward Twitchell Hall, The Hidden … got the handkerchief in my pocket that you made and marked for me, I have just this moment pull’d it out to admire the letters. Oh! Jane! It is a valuable handkerchief. […] Adieu my love, do not forget to send me a piece of hair.’ 8 8 . William & Dorothy Wordsworth, The Early Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (1787-1805), ed. Ernest de Sélincourt [1935] (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), …
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… in sociable epistolary exchanges of men and women alike. During her stay in Paris in September 1767, the famous letter writer Lady Mary Coke reported that she ‘ went out to shops & bought several things’. She bought a snuffbox for … aristocratic ranks to humbler middle-class circles, snuffboxes were given or exchanged as tokens of friendship. In a letter written from Geneva in 1702 in which he thanks his friend Chamberlain Dashwood for the gift of a snuffbox, Joseph … emotion to the object which acts as a material embodiment of their mutual affection: 3 . Lady Mary Campbell Coke, The Letters and Journals of Lady Mary Coke , vol. 2 (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889), p. 116-137. ‘About three days ago Mr. …
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… entry into high society as the newly acquired bride of notorious rake, Sir William Stanley. At first Julia Stanley’s letters home contain her laughing astonishment at the vacuity and pace of living à la mode , but as the novel progresses …
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Wallpapers [ Furniture & Interior decoration ]
… yellow paper and prints, framed in a new manner invented by Lord Cardigan, that is, with black and white borders.’ The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford (Philadelphia: Lean and Blanchard, 1842), vol. 2, p. 171. 5 . Emile de Bruijn, …
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… working space: a gruff Thomas Gainsborough had, for instance, to be coaxed into meeting his visitors there (see his 1767 letter to William Jackson for a taste of how reluctant he was to be interrupted) and John Hoppner (1758-1810) even had a …
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