Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… in the evening which could easily extend on to nighttime. The most famous pleasure gardens of the era were located in London ( Vauxhall , on the South Bank, or Ranelagh , in Chelsea), with other smaller but also frequently visited venues … Burney, Smollet). 3 . Hannah Greig, ‘’All Together and All Distinct’: Public Sociability and Social Exclusivity in London’s Pleasure Gardens 1740-1800’, Journal of British Studies (51, January 2012), p. 51. 4 . see Jonathan Conlin, ‘Vauxhall Revisited: The Afterlife of a London Pleasure Garden, 1770–1859’ Journal of British Studies (vol. 45, No. 4, October 2006), p. 718-743. Prints like the …
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