| PART I. THE FRENCH BACKGROUND |
| CHAPTER I |
| PAGE |
| Introduction | [3] |
| CHAPTER II |
| Origin and Characteristics of the Salon | [16] |
| CHAPTER III |
| The Eighteenth Century Salon | [30] |
| CHAPTER IV |
| English Authors in Parisian Salons | [42] |
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| PART II. THE ENGLISH SALON |
| CHAPTER V |
| The Earlier English Salon | [83] |
| CHAPTER VI |
| Conversation Parties and Literary Assemblies | [102] |
| CHAPTER VII |
| The Bluestocking Club | [123] |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| The London Salon | [134] |
| CHAPTER IX |
| Bluestockings as Authors | [166] |
| CHAPTER X |
| Mrs. Montagu as a Patron of the Arts | [189] |
| CHAPTER XI |
| Results | [209] |
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| PART III. THE SOCIAL SPIRIT IN ENGLISH LETTERS |
| CHAPTER XII |
| Johnson and the Art of Conversation | [217] |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| Walpole and the Art of Familiar Correspondence | [236] |
| CHAPTER XIV |
| Fanny Burney and the Art of the Diarist | [254] |
| CHAPTER XV |
| Boswell and the Art of Intimate Biography | [268] |
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| INDEX | [285] |