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… the races rather than attending to the matters of state. At the end of the century, The Jockey Club , or A Sketch of the Manners of the Age (1792) by Charles Piggott offers a similar picture. It is a vitriolic attack on the aristocracy, with … Revolution. He pursued such attacks, against women of the aristocracy, in The Female Jockey Club , or A Sketch of the Manners of the Age (1794). Image Legend (After) Robert Dighton, 'A Deep One and a Knowing One', The British …
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