Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… His publications offer a startlingly intricate portrait of his times – covering anything from politics to prostitution; fashionable wigs to food – and they have accordingly been mined by historians with diverse scholarly interests. For the … or societies for the improvement of learning and keeping up with good humour and mirth’. 8 Ward’s satire skewers this fashion, with almost four hundred pages detailing thirty-two clubs and their chief activities. Clubs pretended to …
Clubs | Humour | Impoliteness | Politics | Satire | Sex | Taverns
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