Abstract
Discusses the background, publication history, and significance of Allan Ramsay's poem The Fair Assembly (1723), about an elite dance gathering in Edinburgh, the social connections of its aristocratic patrons ("Directresses"), and its political and cultural implications, especially in connection with the continuing role of Jacobite and other anti-Whig and anti-Presbyterian sentiment in the nation's capital.
Recommended Citation
Brown, Rhona
(2020)
"Networks of Sociability in Allan Ramsay's The Fair Assembly,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 46:
Iss.
2, 22–39.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol46/iss2/4