Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… Commons, 1731. Image frontispiece, after Hogarth, of Edward Ward, A Compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, Compil'd from the original papers of a gent., 1745 Abstract … decorous sociability was not one to which everyone subscribed. People > Commerce People > Art and Literature Keywords Clubs Humour Impoliteness Politics Satire Sex Taverns Edward ‘Ned’ Ward was a satirist and tavern keeper, most widely … of the Bottle (London, 1720) Ward’s attention to sociability, however, is perhaps explicit in his Secret History of Clubs (1709). Peter Clark has shown that the decades after 1688 witnessed a ‘national expansion’ in clubs, as people …
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