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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Woodbridge :
The Boydell Press,
[2011]
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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.