Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland
Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland

Author: Katharine Glover

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1843836815

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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 and expectations influenced the experience of elite femininity in Scotland in the eighteenth century. It explores women's education and upbringing; their reading practices; the meanings of the social spaces and activities in which they engaged and how this fed over into the realm of politics; and the fashion for tourism at home and abroad. It also asks how elite women used polite social spaces and practices to extend their mental horizons and to form a sense of belonging to a public at a time when Scotland was among the most intellectually vibrant societies in Europe.

Letters
Letters

Author: Lord Patrick Grant Elchies

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13:

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The Juridical Review
The Juridical Review

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1917

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13:

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Covers general areas of Scottish law including criminal, commercial, contract, delict, environmental, family, administrative, and socio-legal issues. Also includes some articles on comparative law, plus book reviews and case notes.

Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith
Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith

Author: Brian Bonnyman

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0748694692

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The third duke of Buccleuch (17461812) presided over the management of one of Britain's largest landed estates during a period of profound agrarian, social and political change. Tutored by the philosopher Adam Smith, the duke was also a leading patron of the Scottish Enlightenment, lauded by the Edinburgh literati as an exemplar of patriotic nobility and civic virtue, while his alliance with Henry Dundas dominated Scottish politics for almost 40 years. Combining the approaches of intellectual, economic and agrarian history, this book examines the life and career of the third duke, focusing in particular on his relationship with Adam Smith and the improvement of his vast Border estates, assessing the influence of Enlightenment thought on agricultural revolution. In its exploration of the cultural as well as the economic roots of Improvement and in its assessment of a previously unappreciated aspect of Smith's career, this book has appeal for both specialist scholars and general readers interested in the Scottish Enlightenment and the culture of Improvement in 18th-century Scotland.