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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Références complémentaires Clark, Peter, Sociability and Urbanity: Clubs and Societies in the Eighteenth-Century City (Leicester: University of Leicester, 1986). Elias, Norbert, The Court Society , trans. E. Jephcott ( Oxford: Basil … to organize her own assemblies. … Clark, Peter, Sociability and Urbanity: Clubs and Societies in the Eighteenth-Century City (Leicester: University of Leicester, 1986). Elias, Norbert, The Court Society , trans. E. Jephcott ( Oxford: Basil …
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… of its population of 560,000 in 1789 was enslaved, and most inhabitants lived in the countryside. The largest city, Cap français, had only 18,550 inhabitants in 1788, and this was about three times greater than its population fifteen years earlier. Saint Domingue’s next largest city, the capital Port-au-Prince, had only 6,200 habitants in 1789, plus another 2,200 soldiers and sailors. Indeed, the … economies, and social networks in the Atlantic port cities, 1500-1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), p. 257-297. The paucity of white women in Saint-Domingue was considered a problem at the time not only because it led to interracial …
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… be located in inns, town halls, and guildhalls depending on the facilities and amenities offered in any given town or city. Inns were constructed with rooms specifically designed for large gatherings and dancing, an ideal place for the …
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Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… way that can also be tracked in her accounts. 3 Pockets facilitated mobility and engagement with the new pleasures of city life for the wealthy like Arabella. They also furnished accessories for polite interactions and equipped gentry and … period, see Natalie Zemon Davis, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) and Felicity Heal, The Power of Gifts: Gift Exchange in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 10 . Cited …
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… to both a familial and literary hierarchy,’ Their Fathers’ Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth and Patriarchal Complicity (Oxford: OUP, 1991), p.11. 2 . Patricia Demers, The World of Hannah More (Lexington: The University Press of … p. 69. Yet, despite the benefits of urban literary sociability, More was never blinded by the dazzling lights of the city. Her visits to London grew less numerous as the years went by and, as for Bath, she had always ‘hated’ the place. 6 …
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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
Correspondence | France | French Revolution | Politics | Women
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