Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

by Katharine Glover

Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time.

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 and other family papers), this book investigates the ways in which polite social practices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843836815
• ISBN13: 9781843836810
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"