Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… relocates British sociable values – virtue, politeness, modesty and civility – from British sociable places (‘the assemblies’) to the Turkish hot bath. 1 . Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M_y W_y M_e: … an ‘imagined community’ in which reading women can exercise their Christian sociable skills, on the model of tea-table assemblies, an idealised form of communal sociability later to be echoed in Adam Smith’s concept of ‘harmony and …
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