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Aphra Behn [ Art and Literature ]

… Ce statut inédit fut largement diffusé dans les cercles littéraires européens.   People > Art and Literature Mots-clés author Slavery espionage Salons Theatre Une vie de plume et d'aventures Il existe peu de traces de l’enfance d’Aphra … de sa plume sous la Restauration. Ce statut inédit fut largement diffusé dans les cercles littéraires européens.   … author … Slavery … espionage … Salons … Theatre … Aphra Behn …

Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]

… It had a high concentration of taverns, dosshouses, coffeehouses, and brothels – as well as publishers, booksellers, and authors. This mixture of the socially low, the commercial and the literary made it appealing to use the street name as a … Though the actual street eventually disappeared in the restructuring of London and the social and economic conditions of authorship that the term implied evolved, the notion of Grub Street remained firmly entrenched in the British literary … (one of the lowest forms of accommodation), coffeehouses, and brothels – as well as of publishers, booksellers, and authors. It is this mixture of the socially low, the commercial (all the way to actual prostitution) and the literary …

Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]

… Résumé Mary Berry (1763-1852), renowned traveller, author, and salonnière, friend of Horace Walpole's, headed sociable circles in London but also spent time in the vicinity of Strawberry Hill. She became the posthumous editor of Walpole's correspondence, and authored two plays as well as historiographical works. She met a large number of literati, artists, and politicians and … death is probably at least partly due to her habit of avoiding putting her name on the title-pages of the books she had authored or edited. Moreover, Berry did not write poems and novels but preferred the genres of history and biography. 2 …

Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… and the weakness of the state. The inability and, in some instances, unwillingness of the state to assert its authority in key domains, such as taxation, calumnious speech and the grain trade, created a vacuum that the clubs … during a tumultuous period of constitutional transformation. They served multiple functions. They lobbied and petitioned authorities. They informed and educated the public. They fundraised and redistributed, to the poor and to the army at war … produced a toxic politics: while the clubs externalised their internal conflicts, polarising society, they also claimed authority that the constitution did not confer to them. The principle of popular sovereignty may have helped justify this …

Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]

… with his readers. He was known as a ‘scribbler’ and his public identity was that of a controversial and prolific author. In this way, Defoe’s style of social networking is closer to that of the twenty-first century than that of his … This did not mean that he would be a staunch Whig however. After pleading guilty to the charge of seditious libel for authoring  The Shortest Way , Defoe cut a deal with the wily Tory politician, Robert Harley (1661-1724) that resulted in … but Harley was not similarly obliged. Defoe’s courting of Harley, as it were, offers one of the few examples where the author can be observed attempting to cultivate an enduring bond of friendship along the lines of those that characterised …

Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… and ‘merit’, the poetic or artistic capability of the person receiving patronage. 1 . For example Charles Churchill, The Author. A Poem (London: W. Flexney, 1763), p. 3-4; James Ralph, The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade, Stated. With Regard to Booksellers, the Stage, and the Public. No Matter by Whom (London: … 1650–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 10. Oliver Goldsmith and Charles Churchill are among the authors in the second half of the century who deplored the marketized corruption of the prevailing system, and idealized …