Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… how one could identify a true, virtuous beauty, from those making improper use of their physical perfection. As Richard Steele claimed in The Spectator : 8 . Hannah Greig, The Beau Monde (Oxford: OUP, 2013), p. 176. 9 . See also: Joan Lane, … true beauty and those ‘faint and Spiritless’ charms are supposedly easily identified through observation and comparison. Steele, much like Joseph Addison, often commented on the nature of beauty and the effect of the manners on the … throughout the century, becoming further defined and perpetuated by the social visibility of women. 10 . Richard Steele, ‘no. 33, Saturday 7 April 1712’, in The Spectator (London: S. Buckley and J. Tonson, 1712), vol. 1, p. 180–186. …
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