Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… their personal achievements and merit. 1 . Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780 (University of California Press, 1996), p. 209. Definitions of ‘gentleman’ in Dr Samuel Johnson’s … Barry, Jonathan and Christopher Brooks (eds.), The Middling Sort of People: Culture, Society and Politics in England, 1550-1800 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994). Corfield, Penelope J., Power and the Professions in Britain, 1700-1850 (London: Routledge, 1995). French, Henry R., ‘The Search for the ‘Middle Sort of People’ in England, 1600-1800', Historical Journal (vol. 43, n° 1, 2000), p. 277-293. Solinger, Jason D., Becoming the Gentleman: …
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