William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… life, it was more a solitary activity than a collective one. Gilpin’s experience of sociability was first and foremost epistolary and literary. However, the headmaster tried to prepare his pupils for a sociable life and imagined a sociable … with them in his letters. When his grand-children visited him, he kept to his study. 3 With his friends, he preferred epistolary exchanges to conversation as his son William explained bluntly in an unpublished note kept at the Bodelian … of horses and fowl. A headmaster preparing his pupils for society William Gilpin’s letters to his grandson and his epistolary manual 13 harp on the diffidence young men should have of male sociability, using several examples of …
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