Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… with her youth, charm and high rank. Her epistolary novel The Sylph explores the relationship between high society, sociability and suicide. People > Aristocracy People > Fashion Mots-clés Correspondence Fashion Fiction Gambling Politics … social activities, such as ‘whirled away’ and being caught in a ‘vortex of folly and vice’, suggestive of a lack of sociability in high society. 3 As each participant rushes from one activity to the next there is no time for the kind of social interaction that resulted in self-reflection and self-improvement that epitomised eighteenth-century sociability. In fact reflection is positively scorned by Sir William, who declares ‘Reflect! Oh that is so outré I hate …
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