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Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings & Emotions ]

… sociability broke down. Practices > Politics & 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 … or Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806), used their social skills to political effect. Lady Hervey’s famous dinners for select groups of ‘ bel esprits ’, mixed established and up-and coming politicians with beautiful and/or witty … the case in November 1758 when she invited the leading Opposition politician and Paymaster of the Forces, Henry Fox, to dinner. Fox, who was keen to gain Opposition supporters, recorded the event: ‘On Thursday at Ly Hervey’s to meet a very …

Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés menageries Travel Queen’s zebra aristocracy Gilbert Pidcock exotic animals dinners fragrances macabre curiosity Royal Menageries: The Queen’s Zebra Seen as an establishment of luxury and curiosity … of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Burger (Cambridge: the MIT Press, 1989), p. 40. The Social Practice of Turtle Dinners London’s menagerists were first and foremost animal merchants purchasing and selling exotic animals as living … to secure social relationship. Gentlemen attending the club used to eat turtle with sobriety in amiable fellowship. The dinner registers of the Royal Society’s dining club attest the importance of turtle in socialising. The donation of a …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… resulting in large, elegant metropolitan taverns, which could house large balls, public meetings, and political dinners. A description of the contested reputation of taverns in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Places > Food & … eating and drinking, including meetings of clubs and societies, political meetings, balls and assemblies, celebratory dinners, and concert performances. They also functioned as auction houses, collectors of signatures for petitions, … London Tavern in Bishopsgate Street especially celebrated for its magnificent banquets, celebratory feasts, and turtle dinners beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing well into the Victorian period. 1 . Quoted in Jean Louis …

Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]

… decades, George Bryan Brummell, the archetypal dandy, exercised his power, frequenting London’s elite clubs, balls, and dinners. Not only did he introduce a new clothing style for men, based on clear lines, a sparing use of colours other … old and exclusive London clubs, and a founding member as well as president of Watier’s, a club reputed to serve the best dinners in London. If later writing emphasizes the dandy’s uniqueness and even solitude, the historical Brummell was … he became a tourist attraction: travellers stopping at the Hôtel d’Angleterre in Caen asked to be seated near him during dinner (Jesse II: 273). Brummell died on 30th March 1840 in Caen, after a prolonged and severe illness. If the real …

Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]

… have kept out of political sociability. Her house was frequently filled with family members and navy acquaintances for dinners and assemblies, and thus provided opportunities for Boscawen to exert a form of social politics in the manner … of Late Eighteenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal (n° 43, vol. 3, 2000), p. 669-697, here p. 684. Boscawen’s dinner parties served to gather news and promote her husband’s career by means of diligent networking. Her sociable … letter continues, she had invited his brother as well as a member of Parliament, Sir Charles Frederick, and his wife to dinner. E ven then, she seems to have preferred small sociable circles and dinner parties. Yet in the 1750s, while her …

James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]

… of the Scottish nobility, were already part of Boswell’s circle, and would remain so – indeed, he even contrived a dinner in London in May 1776 that brought Johnson and Wilkes, the bitterest of political rivals, together in an … but actively contriving it. He could be immensely self-promoting, often in a highly embarrassing way, as at the annual dinner of the Company of Grocers in London in November 1790, in the presence of Prime Minister William Pitt, an honorary … when that furthered the sociability of a social situation. His pride and satisfaction at engineering the Johnson/Wilkes dinner, and of course in being able to parade that in the Life of Johnson fifteen years later, after Johnson’s death, …