… 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 recognised as the author of The London Spy … forms of interaction, such as ‘the Mollies Club’, which satirised meeting places frequented by those seeking male homosexual encounters. The majority of clubs, however, are fictitious and lampooned certain kinds of Londoners and their … … Clubs … Humour … Impoliteness … Politics … Satire … Sex … Taverns … Ned Ward …
… life were therefore highly valued by Hume in theory ̶ ‘particular clubs and societies are everywhere formed: Both sexes meet in an easy and sociable manner; and the tempers of men, as well as their behaviour, refine apace’ (Hume, …
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… taverns, chop houses and prostitutes. This was a distinctly urban popular culture shaped by an appreciation of lewdness. Sexuality was an integral part of sociability. Drury Lane was notorious not only for the poverty of its inhabitants but …
… authorities. On October 30, 1793, the National Convention banned all women’s clubs. The justification for doing so was sexist, but the ban was triggered by the outbreak of violence between rival women’s organisations. 9 It was part of a …
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… the lover, as well as of the patriot; and threatens, in further progress, to destroy all distinctions, both of rank and sex, to crush all emulation, but that of fraud, to corrupt all those classes of our people, whose ancestors have, by …