Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
… London from 1793-1821. Nonetheless, it is striking that, while the Diary records a great deal of information – indeed ‘gossip’ - it seems as if this is of a rather distinctive character and suggests that a different sociability existed … > Art and Literature Objects > Diaries & Letters Practices > Communication Mots-clés Art Conventions Diaries Gender Gossip Between 1978 and 1984, Yale University Press published a 16-volume edition of the diary of Joseph Farington … of acquaintance. Reading Farington’s diary today, the word that springs to mind to describe much of its content is ‘gossip’. It seems clear that he spent a lot of time talking about and writing up reports of other people’s behavior, …
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