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Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3227, 1711. Image John Stuart, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D14964, 1710. Résumé Richard Steele was one of the most important and controversial figures of early … Kneller, including the one of Steele here. Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3227, 1711. In one of his first publications, The Christian Hero (1701), he articulated his conviction that …
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William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
Abolition | Activism | Benevolence | Charity | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Philanthropy | Religion | Slavery
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… Will of Hannah More, TNA, PROB 11/1822/405 Image Henry William Pickersgill, ‘Hannah More’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 412, 1822. Résumé Hannah More, a woman of letters, was a Christian activist and philanthropist. Her sociable life in Britain’s major social centers, London and Bath, enabled her to use her closeness to the bluestocking circle and later her membership of the evangelical … she soon became the author of a play, The Search after Happiness , which, first published locally, was republished in London where it won her public recognition. 1 There, thanks to her friends’ letters of introduction, she rubbed shoulders …
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… nationale de France, 1796-1799. Image Frontispiece of A voyage to Saint Domingo, in the years 1788, 1789, and 1790 (London: T. Cadell nd W. Davies, 1797). Résumé This entry discusses the various forms of public sociability in … shown , sociability played a significant role in eighteenth-century societies in Europe, especially in cities. Paris and London boasted lively public spheres as well as influential intimate ones, such as salons, where ideas, taste and … precise numbers but not by very much. See John D. Garrigus, Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue (London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2006), p. 126; Fréderic Régent, La France et ses esclaves: De la colonisation aux abolitions …
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