Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century
Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century

Author: Amy Prendergast

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1137512717

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The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France.

The Women of the French Salons
The Women of the French Salons

Author: Amelia Gere Mason

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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"The Women of the French Salons" by Amelia Gere Mason is a collection of stories (often called "sketches") of some of the women who made the French Salons so illustrious. This society is known for its decadence and high culture which was, in part, thanks to the women who occupied the spaces alongside the men. Thus, Mason's work pays tribute to these women in a fascinating read.

British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Author: S. Schmid

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-02-06

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1137063742

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British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural agitation. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - Schmid paints a vivid picture of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s.

Coiffures
Coiffures

Author: Carol de Dobay Rifelj

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0874130999

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Examines nineteenth-century hairstyles and their cultural associations, and analyzes the social and symbolic roles that hair played in literary representations of the new body ideal of the era in fashion magazines, and as clues to social status, sexual availability and character in the fiction of major French authors including Baudelaire, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola.

Salon Therapy
Salon Therapy

Author: Denise Thompson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 0595457312

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Professional Therapy leaves you feeling like its problems only you have. You go into a quiet little room where the Doctor sits at his or her desk across from you and asks you these dry questions. Then, they sit there waiting on you to talk. They will just sit there looking at you. Over time, I guess you open up to the person. Here, everyone gets involved. They've experienced some form of life issues and know how it changed their life. Here, no one has gone to school, the lesson came from life experiences. Each person gives great detail about the subject and how they found the solution. It makes you feel connected to reality a lot more because you know this is real not just a brain smart person sitting before you with a book smart answer! Many times, a subject comes up and it may get so involving, tears are wiped away in moments of emotions. I swear, there have been times the shop has been in such an emotional state, you forgot you were even in a salon. The sistas bonding together to reach out to someone with all the right intentions of helping a sista in whatever the situation it may be. I tell ya, if you haven't experienced a sista- ta-sista soul searching gathering in a beauty salon, you have been missing out on who we, as sistas, really are when we bond together.