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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]

… & Society Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Mots-clés Women political hostess dinner Public Days race meet election canvassing chairing Sociability was intrinsic to British politics in the eighteenth-century. For Members of Parliament … sharing a drink. Voters and their womenfolk also expected candidates and their agents to be properly respectful when canvassing. Arrogance, disrespect, intimidation or abusive language could result in lost votes, but the reports of the … so divisive that sociability broke down. … Women … political hostess … dinner … Public Days … race meet … election … canvassing … chairing … Politics …

Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]

… social visits and letters between those seeking to marshal an ‘interest’ behind a candidate. The well-attended Grosvenor canvassing party at Chester in 1818 even included a band of sixty musicians (who were paid so poorly in 1812 that they … Once (and often before) an election had been called, electoral ‘treating’ became a routine, and often expensive, form of canvassing for votes. Food and drink were distributed in large quantities from inns and alehouses, whose keepers made …

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… brewery business to avert financial ruin, a move that Samuel Johnson had advised and in which he supported her, and by canvassing for her husband’s seat as a Member of Parliament for Southwark (Franklin 43, 63). 3 . See also Autobiography, … do nothing for me but at best keep my Mind in Exercise, my Spirits in Motion’ ( Thraliana II, 975-76). She likened it to canvassing, a duty she had undertaken repeatedly for her first husband: ‘Life is a Toil, & Visitants increase it -- a …