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Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… was only part of the entertainment, and conversation also took up a fair amount of time. As in the Bluestocking salons, members of the aristocracy freely mixed with the talented, and women, musicians as well as visitors, participated … by M. Rack etching and aquatint, published 4 June 1782, National Portrait Gallery, NPG D14563. And yet, the Burney salon can be situated somewhere on a continuum between the private and the public sphere, between literary and musical entertainment, even between work and leisure: ‘Pleasant as salon gatherings certainly were, they were not mere leisure activities created to while away the hours or as relaxation …
Art | Audience | Bluestockings | Conversation | Music
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… 4905, 1778. Résumé Called the ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’ in her own time, Elizabeth Montagu was perhaps the best-known salon hostess during the second half of the eighteenth century. She was a towering figure in circles promoting literary … company, and the Bulstrode circle may well have influenced Elizabeth Montagu’s own decision to start a literary salon afterwards. Witty, lively, and good-looking, Elizabeth Robinson had many suitors, and in 1742, aged 22, she settled … built for her in fashionable Portman Square which would serve as a representative basis for her already famous literary salons. Along with (at least) Frances Boscawen and Elizabeth Vesey, Elizabeth Montagu was a principal hostess of the …
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Friendship | Women
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… by then bygone days of sociable eighteenth-century life: Burney, by now the widowed Mme d’Arblay, praised the literary salons of her youth for promoting freedom of speech, controversial ideas, and even conflict, contrasting them to what she … in to delight everyone with his mimicry of other famous actors on the social scene. 3 3 . On the impact of the Burney Salon on the younger members of the family, see also Cassandra Ulph, ‘Frances Burney’s Private Professionalism’, Journal … of the young Burneys. Frances’s journals during the years 1774-1784 in particular offer a rich source of contemporary salon culture. 4 Her phenomenal memory may not always be trustworthy in every detail, but she managed to capture …
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
Academies | Censorship | Community | Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Networks | Republic of Letters
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… as well as with rare objects exhibited in places of sociability such as gardens, public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and many others. If it is true that North America, the Bahamas, Canary Islands, … as well as with rare objects exhibited in such places of sociability as gardens, public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and so forth. Across Europe and in particular in such a polished and commercial … Londoners and privileged gentry and aristocracy, conversations about exotic animals took place in drawing rooms, salons, royal palaces, and menageries. 8 In such places of sociability, visitors, guests and spectators could expect to …
Animals | Australia | Chinoiserie | Collecting | Commerce | Exoticism | Menageries | North America
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Periodicals [ Print culture ]
… and articles, they act as sources for discussion and exchanges in different sociable places (coffee-houses, clubs, Salons). Because periodicals host very different voices and opinions, and tackle different sorts of subjects, they shape … is not specific to an environment of sociability or a certain social class. In the eighteenth century, it was present in salons, but also in cafés, which sometimes offered newspapers for reading, thus attracting a more regular clientele. It … and articles, they act as sources for discussion and exchanges in different sociable places (coffee-houses, clubs, Salons). Because periodicals host very different voices and opinions, and tackle different sorts of subjects, they shape …
Conversation | Correspondence | News | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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Horace Walpole (and the English garden) [ Art and Literature / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… 1764, il va fortement contribuer au déploiement d’une nouvelle esthétique dans l’art des jardins. La fréquentation des salons : lieux de déploiement des modes Lorsqu’il voyage en 1739 en France en compagnie du poète Thomas Gray avant de … 1 comme le rappelle Didier Masseau. On y croise la marquise de Boufflers et Madame du Deffand, qu’il rencontre dans son salon rue Saint Dominique et avec laquelle il noue une amitié épistolaire qui va durer quinze ans. Alternant éloges et critiques, Walpole ‘s’accommode assez du régime des salons, tout en raillant cette curiosité vorace et futile que met en mouvement la moindre nouvelle, la moindre bagatelle …
Correspondence | Fashion | Gardens | Gothic
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Wallpapers [ Furniture & Interior decoration ]
… Museum, London, E.3594-1922, ca. 1735. Ceux-ci rencontrent beaucoup de succès dans les années 1740, prolifèrent dans les salons ou dans les chambres à coucher, souvent de couleurs bleus ou cramoisis, et se répandent outre-Manche, où ils sont … où il reçoit les visiteurs les plus choisis de la capitale. Il sera du dernier bon ton d'imiter la décoration de ses salons. Magasin des modes nouvelles, françaises et anglaises, décrites d'une manière claire & précise, & représentées par … l'arabesque, que l'on connait depuis le décor à la Renaissance des Loges du Vatican par Raphaël, va se répandre dans les salons en Angleterre vers 1780. Ce motif était prisé à l’époque de la Renaissance, après la découverte archéologique de …
Art | Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Domesticity | Fashion | France | Furniture | Gothic
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