An Essay on Conversation.

Verlag: London : Printed for L. Gilliver. 1737, 1737

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Stillingfleet delivers advice on taste, politeness, and the proper use of language that would serve him well as a Blue-stocking later in life. An Essay on Conversation. London : Printed for L. Gilliver and J. Clarke, at Homer s Head in Fleet-Street, and at their Shop in Westminster-Hall, M,DCC,XXXVII. [1737] Price I s. The volume collates as follows:[2], 19, [1] p. The volume collates as follows: (2) title, A2 E2. Each leaf measures 336 x 228 mm. Anonymous by Benjamin Stillingfleet. Stillingfleet was educated at Norwich School before obtaining a B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1723. He failed to become a Fellow, partially because of the influence of Richard Bentley, Master of the college, who considered it a shame for a man of Stillingfleet's range of talents to 'be buried within the walls of a college'. Stillingfleet would later include allusions to Bentley in his Essay on Conversation ; "And tho', when roughly us'd, he's full of Choler, As blustering B---y to a Brother Scholar." (p. 14) He served as a tutor to bring in income and was the tutor to his relative William Windham at Felbrigg Hall for fourteen years. He then set out to accompany William Windham on the Grand Tour returning several years later in 1742. His Essay on Conversation was published in 1737, just before he took his young charge on the Grand Tour; included is advice on such aspects of a cultivated life as taste, politeness, and the proper use of language. Originally published unsigned Stillingfleets' name would appear on the title-page of a second edition printed in 1738. A society was founded in the early 1750s by Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Vesey and others as a literary discussion group primarily for women. The society was noted for wanting conversation and did not encourage card playing. They invited various people to attend including Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Catharine Macaulay, Elizabeth Griffith, Hannah More, Elizabeth Ann Linley, Charlotte Lennox and Stillingfleet. There is no doubt that his Essay on Conversation would have served as an entre to the group. One story tells that Stillingfleet was not rich enough to have the proper formal dress, which included black silk stockings, so he attended in everyday blue worsted stockings. James Boswell records that during a period of poor conversation when Stillingfleet was absent that it was remarked that they were "nowhere without blue stockings". The term came to refer to the informal quality of the gatherings and the emphasis on conversation over fashion. The word bluestocking today is used to mean any learned woman.The Volume is in Very good Condition disbound, with generally clean, well margined leaves, some mild general toning. ESTC: T33301 Foxon S757.…

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Titel
An Essay on Conversation.
Autor
Benjamin Stillingfleet
Verlag
London : Printed for L. Gilliver. 1737
Erscheinungsjahr
1737
Zustand
Very Good
Einband
No Binding
Auflage
1st Edition

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