Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century PDF
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PalgraveStudiesintheEnlightenment,RomanticismandCulturesofPrint GeneralEditors:ProfessorAnneK.MellorandProfessorCliffordSiskin EditorialBoard:IsobelArmstrong,Birkbeck&IES;JohnBender,Stanford;AlanBewell,Toronto; PeterdeBolla,Cambridge;RobertMiles,Victoria;ClaudiaL.Johnson,Princeton;SareeMakdisi, UCLA;FelicityNussbaum,UCLA;MaryPoovey,NYU;JanetTodd,Cambridge PalgraveStudiesintheEnlightenment,RomanticismandCulturesofPrintwillfeatureworkthatdoesnot fitcomfortablywithinestablishedboundaries—whetherbetweenperiodsorbetweendisciplines. Uniquely,itwillcombineeffortstoengagethepowerandmaterialityofprintwithexplorations ofgender,race,andclass.Byattendingaswelltointersectionsofliteraturewiththevisualarts, medicine,law,andscience,theserieswillenablealarge-scalerethinkingoftheoriginsofmodernity. 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CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG216XS,England Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century Amy Prendergast TrinityCollegeDublin,Ireland ©AmyPrendergast2015 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedherrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthiswork inaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2015by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-56514-6 ISBN 978-1-137-51271-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137512710 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. Contents ListofFigures vii Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 Thesalon’sphysicalsetting 5 Culturaltransfers 7 Changingnatureofelitesociability 10 1 TheFrenchSalon:ItsForeignParticipantsandHosts 14 Theeighteenth-centurysaloninParis 16 Provincialsalons 27 Post-revolutionarysalons 33 2 AFrenchPhenomenonEmbraced:TheLiterarySalonin Eighteenth-CenturyBritain 44 Frenchconnections 47 TheLondontownhouseassalonlocation:Boscawen, Montagu,andMonckton 50 HesterLynchThraleatStreatham 66 Edinburgh’ssalons 71 3 “NeverWasaFlockSoScatteredforWantofa Shepherdess”:ElizabethVeseyBetweenEnglandand Ireland 78 IrishBluestockings 89 CulturaltransfersacrosstheIrishSea 101 4 MoiraHouseSalon:ASiteforIrishScholarship 106 MoiraHouse 107 Antiquarianismandtranslation 111 Regionalwriting 120 Politicalliterati 128 5 CollaborativeHospitalityandCulturalTransfers: ProvincialSalonsAcrossEnglandandIreland 132 TheIrishprovincialsalonandnetworksofexchange 135 ProvincialEnglishsalonsandliteraryproduction 143 v vi Contents 6 “DublinIsAttribilaire”–TheChangingNatureofElite Sociability 153 Shane’sCastleandprivatetheatricals 155 Readingpartiesandbookclubs 160 Post-actofUnionsalons 168 Transfersandtransformations 173 Notes 177 Bibliography 216 Index 232 Figures 2.1 TheHon.MissMonckton,1777–1778,SirJoshuaReynolds (1723–1792).BequeathedbySirEdwardStern1993 64 4.1 MoiraHouseDublin,drawnandetchedbyWilliamBrocas, published1811 108 6.1 Shane’sCastleinLoughNeagh,theHonble.MrO’Neil’sinthe countyofAntrim,1780 156 vii Acknowledgements My initial interest in the salon was formed during my master’s study at Queen’s University Belfast, under the supervision of Moyra Haslettwhooriginallyfosteredmyinterestinfemalecommunitiesand the Bluestockings, and kindly invited me to participate in my first ECLRNI(Eighteenth-CenturyLiteraryResearchNetworkinIreland)sym- posium at Lucan House. At Trinity I was fortunate enough to come undertheguidanceofthewonderfulIanCampbellRossforthecontin- uationofmyresearchatPhDlevel.Ianhasreadanddiscussedsomany draftsofthiscurrentwork,alwayswithmuchrigour,humour,andkind- ness.CompletingthetriumvirateisAileenDouglaswho,inherposition as postdoctoral mentor, played a key role in helping me to transform the thesis into the monograph it is today. I am extremely grateful for the continued advice and supervision of all three of these mentors. They each have continued to guide and support me long beyond the termination of any official role, and their endless patience, combined with constant encouragement, has been and continue to be absolutely invaluabletome. Iamalsogratefultoavarietyofcolleaguesandfriendsfortheirinsight and advice over the past several years. Niall Gillespie, Anne Markey, DavidO’Shaughnessy,JimShanahan,andPatrickWalshhaveprovided somuchpracticaladviceandhelpsinceImovedtoDublin,andIcon- tinue to turn to them all for guidance today. Special thanks are due to Niall for taking the time to read through the final draft and offer comments on it. I have also received particularly helpful remarks on myresearchatvariousconferencesandviaemailfromClaireConnolly, LesaNíMhunghaile,FinolaO’Kane,andMartynPowell.Inaworkthat focuses on networks and literary sociability, I must mention the great work of both the ECIS and ECLRNI, as well as the assistance I have receivedfrommembersoftheElizabethMontagunetwork,particularly from Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, as well as the many help- ful comments from my PhD extern Elizabeth Eger. Part of the work in Chapter4originallyappearedintheEighteenth-CenturyIrelandjournal– andIwouldliketothanktheECISforitspermissiontoreproducethat materialhere. Myarchivalresearchwasmademucheasierbystaffatvariousinstitu- tions, including Charles Benson, Simon Lang, and all the staff in Early viii Acknowledgements ix Printed Books at TCD; Lady Georgina Forbes who kindly allowed me to access the muniment room at Castle Forbes; as well as the staff at the Public Record Office in Northern Ireland; the National Library of Ireland; the Irish Architectural Archive; and the Royal Irish Academy. I have also had extremely pleasant and helpful dealings with staff at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, as well as at Sheffield Archives,andLichfieldRecordOffice. My research was facilitated by the generous award of a ‘Texts, Con- texts,Cultures’scholarship,coordinatedbytheTrinityLongRoomHub, with funding from the PRTLI. I would like to acknowledge Crawford Gribbin’s assistance throughout the programme, and the contribution ofmyfellowTCCPhDstudents.MyrecentreceiptofanIrishResearch CouncilGovernmentofIrelandpostdoctoralfellowshipallowedmethe opportunity to shape the present monograph. Many thanks are also duetomyexceptionallyefficienteditoratPalgrave,BenDoyle,andhis equally helpful assistant Tom René, who have managed to make the processofpublicationenjoyable. Academic research is not as solitary a pursuit as is often thought andIamgratefultothefollowingpeoplefortheirhelpfulremarksand advicesincethestartofthisproject:SarahCriderArndt,TobyBarnard, Roísín Blunnie, Chris Borsing, Michael Brown, Daniel Carey, Andrew Carpenter, Norma Clarke, Jane Conroy, Dara Downey, Suzanne Forbes, Rebecka Gronstedt, Raphaela Holinski, Margaret Kelleher, Gary Kelly, James Kelly, Jim Kelly, Harriet Kramer Linkin, Eoin Magennis, Jennifer Martyn, Susan McDermott, Tina Morin, Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Jennifer Orr, Shaun Regan, Daniel Roberts, Maria Anita Stefanelli, James Wood, andJulieAnneYoung,aswellastheextensiveQUBPhDcohort. I would especially like to thank my family – my parents, James and Deirdre,andmybrotherEvan–fortheirpersonalsupport,invigorating candour,andconstantencouragement.Myinterestinreadingwasnur- turedataveryyoungagebymymumandhervastcollectionofbooks and French magazines, collected since her own undergraduate studies at Maynooth. I also owe so many thanks to my fiancé Alan Smyth for his reassurances and support, his enduring patience and endless proofreading,andhisunswervingbeliefinme.
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