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Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]

… plays as well as historiographical works. She met a large number of literati, artists, and politicians and cultivated friendships with Walpole, the sculptor Anne Damer, and the playwright Joanna Baillie, documented through letters, which provided her with support. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Travel Literature Salon Horace Walpole Epistolary friendship Mary Berry (1763-1852) headed and participated in sociable circles in London and on the continent, was a … social contacts can serve to highlight her networks: Horace Walpole, Anne Seymor Damer, and Joanna Baillie. The Berrys' friendship with (or patronage through) Walpole – writer, collector, author, creator of the mock Gothic mansion Strawberry …

John Keats [ Art and Literature ]

… his lifetime, his close circle of friends in England strove to defend his genius and preserve his memory for posterity. Friendship was always central to Keats’s life; his poetry and letters attest to a vitally social existence, and to the … thinker. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés British romanticism poetry Leigh Hunt Hunt circle literary correspondence Friendship ‘The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn,’ writes John Keats (1795-1821), echoing his presiding genius, William … and to see his poetry as both informed by and invested in the politically as well as aesthetically inflected notions of friendship and sociability circulating in literary coteries of the time. 2 . See, for example, the recent collection of …

Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]

… print trade. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Defoe’s sociability relied much less on interpersonal ties of family, friendship, religion or civic obligation. Instead, he constructed many different ‘virtual’ identities through his … day. People > Art and Literature People > Association Mots-clés Daniel Defoe Whig Tory Satire print novel Robert Harley Friendship Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731) had many social connections but he did not have many friends. 1  That is to say, … as it were, offers one of the few examples where the author can be observed attempting to cultivate an enduring bond of friendship along the lines of those that characterised political sociability after the Glorious Revolution. The …

Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]

… one Whig faction, yet with foundations in the literary world, it became a hub of patronage along lines of intellectual friendship rather than kinship, an informal venue of political opposition, and a prototype for Dr Johnson’s Club, among … People > Association Practices > Associational culture Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Club Whig Patronage Friendship Addison Tonson The Kit-Cat Club (c.1690s-c.1720) was one of the earliest and most influential London … one Whig faction, yet with foundations in the literary world, it became a hub of patronage along lines of intellectual friendship rather than kinship, an informal venue of political opposition, and a prototype for Dr Johnson’s Club, among …

William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]

… and religious. People > Politics Mots-clés Abolition Slavery Evangelicalism Re-moralization Christianity Clapham Friendship Pitt Hannah More Philanthropy Activism Charity Benevolence William Wilberforce has gone down in history as the … the interplay between moral sentiments – sympathy in particular – and kinship during his formative years. 2  A friendship ethos informed his relationship with some of the members of his family, as shown by a letter to his daughter … whom William Pitt, who played a decisive part in his philanthropic activism. As recognized by Anna Maria Wilberforce, ‘Friendship is often the means by which influence is gained, and Wilberforce's friendship with Pitt (…) was no doubt the …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]

… People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Affection Parental love Sympathy Conversation Pantisocracy Patriotism Imagination Friendship Individuality Coleridge’s childhood: parental love and education The youngest in a family of ten, Coleridge … after. For the poet, this early uprooting from his family environment accounted for his later ‘[c]hasing chance-started friendships’: 1 . Richard Holmes, Coleridge : Early Visions, 1772-1804 (New-York: Harper Perennial, 2005), p. 18. 2 . E. … Too soon transplanted, ere my soul had fix’d Its first domestic loves; and hence through life Chasing chance-started friendships.’ 3 3 . S.T. Coleridge, ‘To the Rev. George Coleridge’, The Complete Poetical Works. Vol. 1, ed. Ernest …