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… that exercised the ‘ conversible World ’ could only be worked out in dialogue, mutual exchange, and – in short – society: Such subjects of thought require not sufficient Employment in Solitude, but require the Company and Conversation of our Fellow-Creatures, to render them a proper Exercise for the Mind: And this brings Mankind together in Society, where every one displays his Thoughts and Observations in the best Manner he is able, and mutually gives and … from the most informal of convivial clubs to more formalised philosophical and professional societies such as the Select Society. Many of these were dedicated to the causes of Scottish economic and agricultural prosperity, to the refinement …

… > Association Mots-clés Clans Clubs Enlightenment Highlands Scotland Tradition In the eighteenth century, Scottish society was still mainly structured into clans, or extended families, subdivided into multiple branches. These were led … the gap. Scottish Gaelic was associated to Irish to emphasise both its oddity and the idea that it was not British. The Society for the Propagating of Christian Knowledge tried to limit its use in the Highlands by introducing a Bible in … States of America as well as in the novels by Sir Walter Scott, whose stories about them were fashionable among the high society of the time. 6  Their image changed as well when James Macpherson, a poet, claimed (falsely) that he discovered a …

… ideas, and even conflict, contrasting them to what she perceived to be the flaws of early nineteenth-century society.   People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Fiction Masquerade Memoirs Theatre Women Best known as a novelist and … he [Dr Burney] associated in the world at large, would be nearly to ransack the Court Calendar, the list of the Royal Society, of the Literary Club, of all the assemblages of eminent artists; and almost every other list that includes the … but too little was equally wrong, as it prevented young readers from learning about the world. The focus is on country society, this time, and there are few indications of provincial inertia – on the contrary, breakfasts, raffles, and …

… was so well entrenched by the later eighteenth century that John Frost, a radical attorney and founding member of the Society for Constitutional Information, defended himself from prosecution for uttering seditious words at the Percy … 6 . Markman Ellis, ‘Coffee-House Libraries in Mid-18th-Century London’, The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society (10.1, 2009), p. 3–40. Coffeehouse sociability was predominantly masculine. Since coffeehouses were often little … was not uncommon for men and women to be found together in some coffeehouses. Although women participated in coffeehouse society, they did so primarily as proprietors (coffee-women) or as visitors to coffeehouses in order to ply their trade. …

… ‘Commercialization of Fashion’, in Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and J. H. Plumb (eds), The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (London: Europa, 1982), p. 34–99, p. 52. 2 . [Anon.], ‘Grub … albeit at least a season behind, at almost affordable prices. 5 . See Hannah Greig, The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 119. This was becoming a growing concern, and the … Beings; have no more Relation to their dressed selves, than they have to the Great Mogul , and are as insignificant in Society as Punch, deprived of his moving Wires, and hung upon a Peg. ‘ 10 10 . Richard Campbell, The London Tradesman …

… Wikimedia Commons, 1787. Résumé Georgiana Cavendish, fifth Duchess of Devonshire captivated late eighteenth-century society 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 … of which had generated a large amount of publicity; there had been no Duchess of Devonshire for two decades and society looked forward to the great Whig dynasty of Cavendish once more having a hostess to revive the splendour of …

… and biographer of Samuel Johnson, embodies some of the contradictions of eighteenth-century sociable lives: a wealthy society lady, she went through periods of financial instability and even poverty. A central part of fashionable society, she also experienced loss and loneliness. A glittering hostess, she was ostracized by society on account of her second marriage. A writer who introduced the anecdotal biography, she was mauled by literary …