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James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… with lords and ladies, as at Northumberland House, where Trafalgar Square now is, where the set surrounding the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland congregated, as he did in London during his visit of 1762-1763; or with politicians and genteel … were women not of the highest social class, but of good family and income and they were as off-limits, apparently, as duchesses and titled ladies. Such were his Dutch friend Belle de Zuylen (Zélide), with whom he had an intense emotional … Capable of charm, of politeness and of conversation with a wide range of women, Boswell brought sociability with him to duchesses, heiresses, actresses and prostitutes alike. What Boswell means by ‘true social intercourse’, in the quotation …
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… could be seen at Gilbert Pidcock’s menagerie at Exeter Exchange. There were also private menageries owned by the Duchess of Portland, the Earl of Shelburne, the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, Sir Robert Walpole, Sir Hans … women used to collect a great variety of Chinese decorative objects. Queen Mary, Queen Anne, Henrietta Howard, the Duchess of Queensbury, the second Duchess of Portland, and the Countess of Ilchester are the best known collectors of porcelain and other chinoiserie which …
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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… sans pourtant jamais lui commander leur portrait: Lady Hertford, Lady Monck, ou bien encore Georgiana Cavendish, duchesse de Devonshire, ‘[l]a femme de Londres la plus à la mode à cette époque’ ( Souvenirs, 664). Dans sa biographie de … « à la créole » dans laquelle Vigée Le Brun avait peint Marie-Antoinette en 1783 allait être introduite par l’élégante duchesse sur le sol anglais et y connaître un succès immédiat. Voir Amanda Foreman, Georgiana. Duchess of Devonshire (London: HarperCollins, 1999), p. 176. Désireuse d’entrer dans la danse des invitations, la …
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Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… political debate’ (Barrell 24). 15 In one such example of a mock playbill from 1784, the subject of lampoon is the Duchess of Devonshire’s support for the campaign of Charles James Fox: 14 . John Barrell, ‘Radicalism, Visual Culture, … respectable Officers of his Majesty’s Household, being their first appearance in these characters. Genius of Beauty, Duchess of Devonshire. Female Patriots, Duchess of Portland, Lady DunCannon, Hon. Mrs. Bouverie, and others. 16 16 . As transcribed in James Gregory, ‘Parody …
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Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… name, and finally Rosedale at Richmond. Boscawen also spent a lot of time visiting friends such as Mary Delany and the Duchess of Portland at Bulstrode, and, in later life, her married children at Badminton and Bill Hill. 14 Not having left … established at Almack’s in 1770 ( Autobiography and Letters of Mary Delany , I, 261-63). S he was glad her daughter, the Duchess of Beaufort, refused an invitation, expecting ‘ deep and constant ’ play to be the main amusement. Yet London … french Ladies I entertain’d in them during the past Summers who have now suffer’d & been put to death on the Scaffold. A Duchesse de Biron, a charming Woman: a Comtesse the Bouflers, la Comtesse Emilie de Bouflers, sa belle Fille, & then a …
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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… of exotic animals with Londoners during the long eighteenth century. The Duke of Marlborough, Sir Hans Sloane, the Duchess of Portland, the Duke of Cumberland, the Earl of Shelburne, Sir Robert Walpole, the utilitarian philosopher …
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Marie du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… de Ferriol, the comte de Pont-de-Veyle; Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Formont; Madame de Luxembourg; Madame de Mirepoix, the duchesse d’Aiguillon; the academician Jean D’Alembert; philosophers such as François-Jean de Chastellux and …
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… and Co., 1938), p. 199. 6 . Lady Catherine organized this together with Princess Belmonte, Princess Francavilla, Duchess Calabritta, and Countess von Kaunitz. Leopold Mozart, letter to his wife, Naples, May 26, 1770, in The Letters of … were often attended by others. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun recalls a sitting with Emma at Caserta, which was attended by the Duchess of Fleury and the Princess Joseph of Monaco, which was followed by all of them having lunch together with Sir …
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