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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Résumé Pleasure gardens were a type of eighteenth-century public spaces which offered diverse forms of entertainment for their visitors. … significance of culturally conditioned notions such as taste, fashion or visibility. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Pleasure visuality entertainment Vauxhall Ranelagh Gardens Pleasure gardens were a particular type of eighteenth-century …

Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Résumé Vauxhall was one of the major pleasure gardens in London from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Its architecture and spatial … types of sociability. With cultural entertainments such as concerts and exhibitions of paintings, it made polite pleasures a part of sociability. The activities it offered ranged from collective entertainment, such as a music kiosk to …

Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Résumé Ranelagh was one of London’s pleasure gardens, a typical eighteenth-century locus of sociability, which offered a mixture of social classes – suitably dressed … in the Rotunda which housed an orchestra. This created shared cultural references. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Pleasure gardens Politeness Luxury Spectacle Entertainement Masquerade Exoticism Visual culture Ranelagh was one of the …

Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]

… watering-places micro-societies emerged and interacted in modes that were the result of the paradoxical cohabitation of pleasure and pain, of illness and fashion. In Bath, sociability aimed at healing the citizen’s body together with the … in the aesthetics of novelty defined by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in The Spectator in which they celebrated the pleasures enjoyed by a man of a ‘polite imagination’ and asserted that ‘the pleasures of the fancy [were] more conducive … attributes, the Assembly Rooms, the Pump Room, the King’s Bath, The North and South Parades, Orange Grove, new pleasure gardens, the Spring Gardens, airy streets conducive to social encounters and shopping, such as Milsom Street (one can …

Covent Garden [ Institutions ]

… a square of genteel housing in the seventeenth century, but the intrusion of a market was followed by its remaking as a pleasure district, including many sites of sociability, such as theatres, taverns, brothels and coffeehouses. These were … produced a unique milieu of sociability and creativity: ‘Mingling, drinking, gossiping and fornicating, business and pleasure blended easily together. More than anywhere else in the capital, Covent Garden, with its eccentric mix of … a square of genteel housing in the seventeenth century, but the intrusion of a market was followed by its remaking as a pleasure district, including many sites of sociability, such as theatres, taverns, brothels and coffeehouses. These were …

Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]

… Complicated Temptation of the theatre’ 2   reveals a tension at the heart of her early life between indulging in the pleasures of sociability, albeit literary sociability, and the seriousness of her mission, i.e. the reformation of … ground in the wake of the French Revolution which urged women to turn their backs on the allurements of the ball and the pleasure garden and find their vocations in the duties of home and the expanding world of philanthropy.’ 7 This was a … simultaneously condemns what More sees as the excesses of Georgian sociability – Sunday concerts, Sunday walks in public gardens, the blurring of the frontier between right and wrong in polite conversation ( Thoughts  53) 11  – and reiterates …