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Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… of Suicide’, in Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), p. 9. See also Mark Girouard, Victorian Pubs (London: Studio … till 4 pm when, at Jane’s suggestion, they all stripped and got into bed together. Somehow, a mob found out about their entertainment and caused a rumpus outside the door (Warner 1). One of the most notorious crimes linked to gin led to a …
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Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]
… broken in sunder, Anger and Hatred ensures all the Secrets on either side [...] are let fly abroad to become the Entertainment and Laughter of the World’. 12 Eighteenth-century conceptions of sociability, which regarded female … deprive you of either reputation or repose, you have no remedy.’ 12 . N. H., The Ladies Dictionary: Being a General Entertainment for the Fair Sex (London, 1694), p. 223. 13 . Alexander Monro (Primus), The Professor’s Daughter: An Essay …
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William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… – he urged Pitt to implement a tax on public diversions. But this should be set against a subtler apprehension of public entertainments, since he made a distinction between ‘innocent relaxation’ and an unbridled passion for gaming in an essay …
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