… sociability as it was generally understood by his contemporaries. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Catholicism Celebrity Correspondence Enmity Friendship Poetry Both in financial terms and in the scale of his cultural influence, … Homer, and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Classical Learning (London: Routledge, 1993). … Catholicism … Celebrity … Correspondence … Enmity … Friendship … Poetry … Alexander Pope …
… the entertainments provided by some aristocratic places such as Devonshire House and Holland House. Although ‘no great celebrity’ 1 , Berry, like other salonnières, knew a large number of literati, politicians, and artists, and through her …
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… 'little circl es' to which came Elizabeth Vesey, Frances Boscawen and the Duchess of Portland. In 1782, the number and celebrity of her guests led her to neglect Hannah More’s conversation, which she soon afterwards apologized for in a …