Lessons in Civility From a Yorkshire Tradesman Father
A son recalls his father a country gentleman of Yorkshire who, though frugal, educated him in languages and accounts and taught civil conduct as the key to respect and success. He recounts learning manners early, the impact of politeness, and how social snubs and the rigidity of etiquette shaped his mercantile life and later marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkshire
London
Tuiry
Velno
J. Burrows
M.D. Fole
Ir Wiliam Chipman
Capelcourt
Royal Exchange
Fragmented Critique of Fashion and Manners in Satirical Text
An archaic denunciation mocks feminine vanity and courtly display, contrasting imagined elegance with decay. It ridicules imitative folly among weak individuals and condemns ceremonial excess, citing Charles the Second era fashion as tainted by filth and pretension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles the Second
Sentimental Spy narrative with social satire
Fragment from a two volume novel describing a country assembly scene. A young narrator and mistress travel by chaise to a fashionable event, observing parsons wives, flattery, dancing, vanity and a curious mix of clergy and gentry. the piece adds a picaresque digression on pride and social pretensions. It also includes a summary of the trial of John Fryer for the murder of Mary Robinson in Hereford, with details of the assault, confinement, illness, and eventual guilty verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providerice
Grey
Efort
Boniface Parsons
Billingspote
Pool Keper
Jony Fryer
Mary Kepryson
Hereford
Baron Eyre
John Fryer
Mary Robinson
Symonds
New Gentlewoman Magazine Promises Medal and Delicate Verse
An 1793 issue advertises a sensational monthly periodical called a Sentimental Magazine. It touts elegant engravings, a medal with each number, and polished essays on history, poetry, and fashion for ladies in Great Britain and Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
England
Asastance Yi
Great Britain and Irelands
G. Robinsog
Patemnofterrow
Plurghers
Kirke
London
Embels
Af Ashe
G-‘Keartly
Great-Britain
Anéirdland
Stanislaus
Poland
Loral and
Bar
Sadie Perateny
Windsor-Hickman
Plymouth
Raufic
Universal Magazine
Knowledge and Pleasure
Marche
Voltar
Stansfaus
Deke
Lorrain
Picuresque
Marchi
Hix
Alzoona
Alonzo
Alzumta
Alona
John Dalrymptes
Lord Ruffel
Algerfin Sidiel
Charles H
Algernon
Sidsey
East Indie Company
J. Hinton
King's Army
Patere Nofter-Row
Warwick-lane
Ireland
Amelia
Francé
Hemet
Cockpar-street
Haymarket
J. Price
Leadenhall-street
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Eveznang
Anqwel
Salat
Kitchin
Barfoy
Edmund Waller
Percival Stockdale
T. Davies
Ruffel-fieer
Covent-garden
J. Dodsley
Pall-mall
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