Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… claiming gentlemanly status through their personal achievements and merit. 1 . Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780 (University of California Press, 1996), p. 209. Definitions of …
Benevolence | Middling sort | Politeness | Rank
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