Elite women and polite society in eighteenth-century Scotland /

"Fashionable 'polite' society of this period emphasised mixed-gender sociability and encouraged the visible participation of elite women in a series of urban, often public settings. Using a variety of sources (both men's and women's correspondence, accounts, bills, memoirs a...

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Main Author: Glover, Katharine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, [2011]
Series:St Andrews studies in Scottish history.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Elite women and eighteenth-century Scottish society
  • Education and upbringing
  • Reading and print culture
  • Polite sociability : space and social practices
  • Politics and influence
  • Travel, tourism and place.