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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… sole purpose of conversation, and were different in no respect from other parties, but that the company did not play at cards. 10 Diffident of cards, the Bluestockings also disregarded politics and scandal but aimed to combat the domestic vision of women, showing …
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… vol II, p. 41. Assembly rooms typically had a few central rooms, including a ballroom, tearoom, and rooms for playing cards. Early definitions of ‘assemblies’ were very basic, expanding over the course of the century to designate …
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Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… seems to have turned increasingly to her bluestocking friends and ‘rational’ entertainments, favouring conversation over cards. His will had left her a prosperous widow, and she continued to keep a hospitable dinner table (Climenson, I, 230). …
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