… before had done. 1 . Peter Beckford, Thoughts on Hunting (London, 1782), p. 214. As with all high status hunting, fine clothes were an essential part of the experience, with the fashionable Leicestershire hunts leading the way in the …
… were interlocking circles of the observed and their observers’. 3 Bluestocking sociability eschewed formal visits and clothes (the blue stockings being considered to stand for an informal dress code), and members were involved in a ‘wide …