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Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]

… virtue by his supporters, and a fraudulent charlatan by his enemies, Necker well understood the importance of public opinion in affairs of state. Under the Old Regime, he worked hard to defend both his reputation and that of his … explores Necker’s changing image in revolutionary opinion to show how the revolution ultimately shifted the terms of public opinion as a form of political sociability in French politics. People > Politics Concepts > Publicity Mots-clés … that protected the National Assembly from the King’s attempts to dismiss Necker and withhold the constitution in the days of July and October 1789. Entitled ‘the constitution of France’, it also depicts Necker simultaneously supporting …

Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]

… broke down. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Mots-clés Women political hostess dinner Public Days race meet election canvassing chairing Sociability was intrinsic to British politics in the eighteenth-century. For … had to be maintained between elections. One way politically ambitious elite families did this was by holding weekly public days at their country houses during the summer. Public Days showed off political families as   families . …

John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… in which he helped to forge a new model of political sociability. His interest in finding the best means to cement the public together into a coherent social form was a life-long project, traversing many domains, including alehouses, … People > Politics People > Association Mots-clés Debating Society Eloquence French Revolution Journalism Oratory Public sphere print poetry John Thelwall was born in Chandos Street in Covent Garden on 27 July 1764, the son of a silk … Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth in Nether Stowey on 17 July 1797. 7  He enjoyed a number of pleasant days in this company, and resolved to join the poets, suggesting a change in preference from the hurly burly of the …

Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]

… Résumé The many-volume publication of Frances Burney’s diaries and journals situates her as one of the leading chroniclers of eighteenth-century … of her father, Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney , which , despite its flaws, may serve as a portrait of the by then bygone days of sociable eighteenth-century life: Burney, by now the widowed Mme d’Arblay, praised the literary salons of her … circulation libraries, literature could be harvested for self-improvement even in a cottage. Accordingly, Burney praised public libraries which enabled readers from all stations in life to, in her words, ‘visit [...] the Brains of our fellow …

Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]

… Résumé For much of the eighteenth century, conditions inside London’s premier public hospital for the insane were appalling, so much so that a major parliamentary inquiry in 1815 led to the dismissal … A form of sociability nevertheless was to be found there, not among the inmates but rather among those members of the public who paid for admission to witness the antics of the lunatics. But the most telling form of Bethlem sociability was … inmates. This was the practice of allowing the admission of paying spectators. Until 1770 it was open to visitors on six days of the week for a nominal contribution (After 1770 a ticket system was introduced). 4  Here individuals and groups …

Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… (the relation between someone able to dispense something with social or economic value, such as money, connections, public acknowledgment, positions and someone who was able to return the favour with artistic or scientific productions) … the relation between someone able to dispense something with social or economic value (such as money, connections, public acknowledgment, positions) and someone who was able to return the favour with artistic or scientific productions. … been as enlightened in this respect as Louis XIV’s France. (Griffin 10) 5 . Arthur Simons Collins, Authorship in the Days of Johnson (London: Routledge, 1927), p. 118. 6 . Walter Graham, English Literary Periodicals (New York: Thomas …