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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… society, and a means of renewing and expanding elite British-Continental intergenerational connections. Practices > Mobility Practices > Education Mots-clés Academies Cosmopolitanism Court Diplomacy Education Elite Europe Italy Tourism …
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Hospitality (in the writings of James Cook and Watkin Tench) [ Social interaction / Mobility / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
Australia | Exploration | Gift | Hospitality | Pacific | Reciprocity | Ritual
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Merchant communities in European ports [ Commerce / Mobility / Trade ]
Commerce | Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Europe | Merchants | Migration | Networks | Travel
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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… seen as inextricably tied up with the nature and form of the government. Practices > Reading & Writing Practices > Mobility Mots-clés Education French Revolution Travel Women In her preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters …
Education | French Revolution | Travel | Women
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Periodicals [ Print culture ]
… publication is a text published at regular intervals. The periodical is characterized by its lightness and therefore its mobility (it could also be called ‘leaves’), the variety of its subjects, the reduced size of the articles that comprise …
Conversation | Correspondence | News | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… these soirées to while away a few idle hours. 4 Goodman argues that Enlightenment salons ‘served purposes of social mobility’, and this was true also of the Burney gatherings: Dr Burney aspired to establish himself as a gentleman, and to …
Art | Audience | Bluestockings | Conversation | Music
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Merchants [ Commerce ]
… could match or supersede that of gentlemen. The distinction between gentlemen and merchant was a fluid one. Social mobility worked both ways and saw gentlemen move into business and merchants move into gentry through land acquisition. …
Commerce | Merchants | Middling sort | North America | Politeness
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
… of politeness. 9 The genre emerged during the mid-eighteenth century and is often associated with an effort of social mobility either on the part of the characters or that of their authors. A socially mobile family themselves, the Burneys …
Fiction | Masquerade | Memoirs | Theatre | Women
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