Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

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 ...