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… Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Mots-clés Collecting Consumption Emotions Fashion Friendship Luxury North America Snuff Snuffboxes epitomise the interconnection of fashion and sociability in the … happily delivered the order: ‘I carried her the snuff box She had desired I wou’d buy at Paris.’ 3   The enactment of friendship In elite circles as well as in lower social ranks, snuffboxes were widely popular and served as the expression of friendship and love. Some models were particularly designed to convey a message on the lid, or had a miniature portrait …

… one of the key aspects of its legacy. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Academies Friendship Satire The Scriblerus Club was much less a formalized social practice, let alone a social institution like the … Club. The poet Thomas Parnell was brought into the club as Swift ’s protégé from St Patrick’s. The two had started a friendship in 1704 when their paths crossed at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland. After he became Dean, Swift … (1711), controversy with An Essay on Criticism (1713), and widespread popularity with The Rape of the Lock (1714). His friendship with Swift that led to the establishment of the Scriblerus Club, and that continued until Pope’s death in …

… shape new spaces of sociability, both real and imagined. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Correspondence France Friendship Salons Madame du Deffand, née Marie de Vichy-Champrond, was born in 1698 into an old but impoverished … Craveri, Madame du Deffand et son monde (Paris: Flammarion, 2017), p. 621. Madame du Deffand had solidified her friendship with Voltaire as she partook in the literary and worldly games offered at the residence of Lord Bolingbroke … to Thomas Gray  ( 25 January 766 ). Mme de Genlis, Salon de Mme du Deffand ( 1825 ).   … Correspondence … France … Friendship … Salons … Marie du Deffand …

… sociability that transcended wartime enmities.   Places > Law & Order Mots-clés Community Conviviality French Revolution Friendship Travel War In around 1797 an unknown French prisoner of war living in the small Hampshire town of Petersfield … eve of Dozouville’s release and departure to France, the Bonhams sent him a catalogue of their library as a gesture of friendship and, perhaps, as a souvenir of Dozouville’s time in Petersfield. 8   5 . David Allen, Commonplace books and … War at Portchester Castle | English Heritage (english-heritage.org.uk) … Community … Conviviality … French Revolution … Friendship … Travel … War … Petersfield in Hampshire (and French prisoners of war in the 1790s) …

… Byron s’enrichit de réseaux tissés à l’échelle européenne. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Mots-clés Dandy Friendship Greece Italy Love Orient Orgies Politics Romanticism George Gordon Byron est né le 22 janvier 1788 à Londres. … Lovelace  (London : Simon & Schuster, 2018) Tuite, Clara, Byron in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2020) … Dandy … Friendship … Greece … Italy … Love … Orient … Orgies … Politics … Romanticism … Lord Byron …

… practices, fashioned links with his readers and created a society of writers and readers based on esteem, admiration and friendship, thereby promoting a special kind of sociability, relying on the qualities of the heart and mind. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Correspondence Emotions Fiction Friendship Although Samuel Richardson was a reserved, taciturn man who was ill at ease in society and preferred indirect … so that the letter takes the form of a dialogue, promotes relationships founded on depth and reflection, as well as friendship based on authenticity, or, in Richardson’s words, a contract sealed between the hearts of the parties …

… 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 … 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 … sent them, which are contained in two volumes of the monumental Yale edition of Walpole's correspondence. 10  Their friendship took the form of a gallant game: in a series of playful and gossipy letters, Walpole addressed the young women …