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The Eighteenth-Century Woman. The hallmarks of the eighteenth century—its opulence, charm, wit, intelligence—are embodied in the age's remarkable women. These women held sway in the salons, in the councils of state, in the ballrooms, in the bedrooms; they enchanted (or intimidated) the most powerful of men and presided over an extraordinary ...
In this chapter, I address the historical typifications of the popular as feminine in eighteenth-century England, and the ways in which the feminine is imagined as popular and so excluded from the intellectual and ideological valuation of elite culture, in contexts ranging from its performance in women’s social practice to its institutionalizati...
The woman's dress of the 18th century is characterized by the light pastel color and the decorations such as lace, ribbons, and artificial flowers. Lace, created with the most delicate...
Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter examines the centrality of gender to British dominion and British modernity and to the categories of difference that Empire claimed to have ‘discovered’, vindicated, and sustained. Gender is not a synonym for women; neither is it a ‘fact’ of the past (or present) awaiting discovery.
23 de ago. de 2021 · Throughout the early eighteenth century, women’s poetry was promoted as a feminine accomplishment, but its status remained liminal: admired by some and discouraged by others, and never as prevalent within the period’s conduct literature as more conventional pursuits.
Eighteenth-century women’s poetry is now widely accessible in both anthologies and individual scholarly editions, and numerous names have now augmented literary syllabuses – the outspoken teenage poetess Sarah Fyge Egerton; the labouring poets Mary Leapor, Mary Collier and Ann Yearsley; middle-class admirers and followers of Pope and Swift, such...
One of two porcelain chocolate cups and saucers belonging to the 'Ladies of Llangollen', English, Derby and Bristol 1780 and 1780–1800. Read about the remarkable owners of a pair of 18th-century chocolate cups, two women who shunned convention, attracting the interest of Anne Lister.
