Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… of the attendees. Representations of debating societies are mostly negative; in the mid-1750s Arthur Murphy (in his comedy The Apprentice ), Henry Fielding (in the Covent Garden Journal , 28 January 1752), and a spate of pamphlets …
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