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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
Correspondence | Fashion | Fiction | Gambling | Politics | Suicide
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… was seen as impolite and unruly. In an essay from The Universal Spectator titled ‘The Art of female conversation’, the author gently mocks the futility of female conversation and suggests considering the use of the snuffbox as a ‘polite Aid …
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… of sociability, from the prescriptions of the male doctors (Cossic, Spas , 115-139), for young sons, emancipation from authority. There, women, for a while, enjoyed more freedom than at home and could find friends or husbands: they escaped …
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