British literary salons of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries is a comprehensive study of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - this study...

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Main Authors: Schmid, Susanne.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Nineteenth century major lives and letters
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137063748
Summary: British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries is a comprehensive study of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - this study establishes sociable networks of days gone by.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230110656, 2013.
Carrier Form: 272 p.
ISBN: 9780230110656
9781137063748 :
1137063742 :
CLC: I561.064
Contents: 1. Traditions and Theories 2. Mary Berry and Her British Spaces 3. Mary Berry as a Learned Woman: Out of the Closet 4. Holland House and Lady Holland 5. The Holland House Set 6. The Countess of Blessington as Hostess 7. The Countess of Blessington as Writer and Editor.