Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… an admiral, Boscawen began as a political hostess, doing the honours at her marital home, 14 South Audley Street. H er parties are thus likely to have entertained a different crowd: elite fashionability and political clout were more … Eighteenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal (n° 43, vol. 3, 2000), p. 669-697, here p. 684. Boscawen’s dinner parties served to gather news and promote her husband’s career by means of diligent networking. Her sociable duties would … Sir Charles Frederick, and his wife to dinner. E ven then, she seems to have preferred small sociable circles and dinner parties. Yet in the 1750s, while her husband served on the Board of Admiralty, her ‘drums’, 4 as she called them, …
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