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Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… with the print trade. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Defoe’s sociability relied much less on interpersonal ties of family, friendship, religion or civic obligation. Instead, he constructed many different ‘virtual’ identities through his … p. 1360-80. Defoe was born into the standard early modern social world of familial, community and religious ties. His family name was ‘Foe’: Daniel was the son of a successful London tallow chandler and devout Puritan, James Foe (d. 1707). … position at the pinnacle of political and ecclesiastical power after two decades of civil war and revolution, Defoe’s family heritage placed him at the centre of what would come to be known as ‘Dissent’, and Daniel would be a Dissenter for …
Dissent | Fiction | Friendship | Tories | Satire | Whigs
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… willing to receive them ( Memoirs , I, 25). 1 . Memoirs of Doctor Burney, arranged from his own manuscripts, from family papers, and from personal recollections. By his daughter, Madame d’Arblay. 3 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1832), … in London – not an occupation the aspiring Burney clan was later on keen to make public. 2 After some ten years, the family moved back to London in 1760, first to fashionable Poland Street, and then, after the death of the first Mrs … in the vortex of public existence ( Memoirs , II, 1). 2 . Amy Louise Erickson, ‘Esther Sleepe, Fan-Maker, and Her Family’, Eighteenth-Century Life (vol. 42, n° 2, 2018), p. 15-37, here p. 18-19. The Burneys, too, entertained on Sunday …
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… everyone with whom she came into contact at ease in conversation. During the summer of 1772, while staying with her family at Spa in the Southern Netherlands, she met William Cavendish, fifth Duke of Devonshire (1748–1811) , and the … she were aware that she was unprepared for the duties inherent in being a duchess at the head of a powerful political family. Several observers thought the lively and intelligent Cavendish and the uncommunicative and emotionally … a phenomenon’. 1 The lack of spousal interest other than to bear an heir, the critical scrutiny of her newly extended family and her youth pushed Cavendish towards creating her own circle of friends, and her noted charm, high spirits and …
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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… sphere The Sociable Jane Austen Jane Austen’s early life, growing up in her father’s country parsonage in Hampshire in a family of clever siblings, featured the kind of domestic sociability which is central to her fiction. 1 A culture of … the Austens were on the margins of the gentry class, with limited income but benefitting from a wide network of family connections. 2 Country balls amongst her Hampshire neighbours widened Austen’s experience at the same time while … of sociability. In her own lifetime and into the late nineteenth century, the novels were read aloud and discussed in family groups like her own, with allusions to her writings serving as cultural currency amongst elite groups. But …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… Cosmopolitanism Fiction France Freemasonry Republic of Letters Born on 18 October 1741 in Amiens to a recently ennobled family, Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos embodied all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He frequented … dangereuses : The rationale for the work is to popularise this truth that there is no happiness except within the family . I can certainly prove this, and I am not at a loss to know where I will take the subject of my scenes from. But … death in Taranto on 5 September 1803 put a stop to his plans to write a work visibly inspired by the bourgeois family model. 13 . Laclos, 'Des femmes et de leur éducation', Œuvres complètes, p. 389-443. Partager Partager sur …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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Spas [ Health ]
… starting with Christopher Anstey’s New Bath Guide (1766), a satirical poem narrating the adventures of the B__n__r__d family at Bath, to which William Fordyce Mavor wrote a sequel in 1781, The Cheltenham Guide; or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d Family Continued . Towards the end of the century, many seaside resorts developed and competed with the spas for …
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… appreciate Richardson’s novels, or in Tom Keymer’s words, the ‘community of the feeling heart’. 8 The members of this family-like community were particularly happy when they could gather around Richardson, who read to them passages from …
Correspondence | Emotions | Fiction | Friendship
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