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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… both of her husbands, the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale (c. 1724-1782), actually her mother’s choice, and the singer and music master to her daughter Gabriele Piozzi (1740-1809), were self-made men, though of different social standing. For … as Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, or Dr Charles Burney, who was engaged as Queenie’s music tutor but quickly gained a place at the famous dinner table. In 1777, Hester, an ardent Tory, was introduced at … price for her perceived mésalliance exacted: ostracized by her old circles on account of her marriage to a Catholic music teacher, she defiantly embarked on a three years’ Grand Tour to Italy with him in 1784. Hester Piozzi’s social …
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Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]
… record of favourite convivial songs. Particularly popular songs were also sold with their tunes as more expensive sheet music, some of which ended up in collections of genteel music to be sung in the parlour rooms of the middle classes, although in general were considered more suitable for male …
Community | Conviviality | Hilarity | Politics | Song | Toasting
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… might include a five-act play and a shorter afterpiece, each with a prologue and epilogue, as well as dances, music, acrobatic or other entertainments between the acts or the main and afterpiece. 4 . Edward A. Langhans, ‘The … For each benefit, an individual actor or group of actors or other playhouse professionals (such as dancers, musicians, or prompters) would choose the repertoire, sell the tickets, entreat their friends to fill the house, and … this practice: 'Written by Mr. Garrick, and spoken by Mr. King, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane.' 29 Amateur musicians delighted in the ability to purchase, sing, and play music from the theatre’s productions. 30 Those who …
Audience | Coffeehouses | Fame | Rioting | Theatre
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… up his post in Naples in 1764, he was accompanied by his first wife, Lady Catherine (1738-1782). She was an accomplished musician, particularly of the harpsichord, which she is shown playing in a portrait of the couple painted in 1770. Allen, … The Impact of Italy: The Grand Tour and Beyond (London: The British School at Rome, 2000). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Music in Naples (1771) … As British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples between 1764 and 1800, Sir William welcomed …
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]
… Genlis. La pédagogue des Lumières (Paris: Taillandier, 2022). Largement autodidacte, d’une curiosité insatiable, cette musicienne reconnue fait une entrée remarquée en littérature en publiant en 1779 son Théâtre d’éducation . Cette même … p. 147-148. En 1800, Genlis regagne la France avec un jeune Prussien qu’elle a adopté et dont elle tentera de faire un musicien prodige. Parmi les changements qu’elle déplore dans la sociabilité parisienne, figure le remplacement des …
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Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]
… x 33’ (w) x 36’ (h) with ornate interior mouldings in neo-classical style, and featured a pipe organ and a balcony where musicians might play when balls were held. The London Tavern proved hugely influential and in the remaining decades of … in London and elsewhere was able to accommodate a large variety of events and meetings, many of which (including balls, musical concerts and debating societies) were designed to attract women. But at their heart was an emerging culture of …
Celebration | Conviviality | Dining | French Revolution | Prostitution | Radicalism
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Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
… notably in his preface to Prometheus Unbound (‘Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age,’ ( Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, …
Friendship | Italy | Poetry | Romanticism
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Spas [ Health ]
… and 1745 laws banning professionally-handled gambling. Theatres also thrived on the taste for display, performance and music pervading the whole town, from the early morning music kiosk to the late outdoor spectacles. In some smaller spas, the theatre became more famous than the spa itself, as …
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… William McGibbon, Robert Burns, but also painters such as Allan Ramsay, worked for the promotion of Scottish art, music and literature but also for the promotion of the British Union . Some clubs and societies would promote Scottish … (i.e. Robert Burns) advocated the promotion, of the Scottish Gaelic language and Scots, writing from then on their music and literary pieces in these idioms. The Scottish national specificity was also reflected in the names given to the …
Britishness | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland
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