… Great Pulteney Street and spent the winters of the 1790s. She led a very sociable life there, ‘thriving on company and conversation, especially with like-minded people who managed to combine high spirits and seriousness in a blend similar … by then been established, with its round of breakfasts, parties, card-playing, the central role of the tea-table, and a conversation where books 5 – they could be exchanged – health matters and politics featured prominently. More enjoyed … – Sunday concerts, Sunday walks in public gardens, the blurring of the frontier between right and wrong in polite conversation ( Thoughts 53) 11 – and reiterates the importance of ‘association,’ i.e. sociability: ‘ The Christian …