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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
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Stefan Zanović [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
… was a talent which allowed him to ingratiate himself with potential victims over and over again throughout Europe. Charming and intelligent, Zanović was capable of forming friendships based on social, political or emotional allegiance, … from Italian. Zanović’s fame was quick to spread first in Venice and then throughout Europe, although his reputation for charm was marred by his proclivity for fraud. In fact, it was well-known that he was at the origin of a fraudulent scheme … aristocrat and later British politician, Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton (1750-1778), Earl of Lincoln. Bewitched by the charms of one of Zanović’s acquaintances and partners, he became an easy prey. When Lord Lincoln realized what was going …
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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
Aristocracy | Emigration | French Revolution | Portrait | Travel | Women
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Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
Aristocracy | Diplomacy | Finance | Gambling | Memoirs | Networks | Theatre
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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… between the Queen and her female zebra was so notable that a humorous allegorical song was composed: ‘What prospect so charming! / What can surpass? / The delicate sight of her M------‘s A--?’. 1 This rude song surviving in a printed … was a newspaper commentary about the camels’ breath printed in 1758 in Mist’s Journal : ‘The ladies are especially charmed with them; and express great satisfaction at the sweetness of their breath, and the neatness of their apartment’. …
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Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… the bosom warm, / Allure with pleasure, and with pain alarm, / With soft affections weave the social plan, / And charm the listening Savage into Man’ (Darwin 18). In those lines, the distance between savagery and mankind is a distance …
Abolition | Affection | Community | Correspondence | Lunar society | Social Contract
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Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… Aspinall-Oglander, downplayed her interest in politics, but as Elaine Chalus reminds us, ‘the best hostesses [...] were charming, good at handling people, sensitive to social nuance, and possessed a thorough understanding of the workings of … in them during the past Summers who have now suffer’d & been put to death on the Scaffold. A Duchesse de Biron, a charming Woman: a Comtesse the Bouflers, la Comtesse Emilie de Bouflers, sa belle Fille, & then a whole Family of …
Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Politics | Women
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… by Virtue, and commanding our Esteem and Love, while it draws our Observation? How faint and Spiritless are the Charms of a Coquet, when compared with the real Loveliness of [...] Innocence, Piety, Good-humour, and Truth; Virtues … Softness to her Sex, and even beautify Beauty. 10 The difference between true beauty and those ‘faint and Spiritless’ charms are supposedly easily identified through observation and comparison. Steele, much like Joseph Addison, often …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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Horace Walpole (and the English garden) [ Art and Literature / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… et l’envie de nature Au XVIIIe siècle, toute une classe sociale qui s’est installée en ville retrouve l’attrait des charmes de la campagne. ‘ Aimez vos femmes et vos châteaux ‘ , disait le duc de Broglie à ses amis. Jean-Jacques Rousseau …
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