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Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Thomas Rowlandson, ‘This is the House that Jack Built’, 1809, The British Museum, 1868,0808.7878. Image John Bluck, ‘Covent Garden Theatre’, 1808, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 59.533.1671(15). Abstract Ballet has been used through the … Even Princess Charlotte Augusta (1796-1817) was not immune to the popularity of the ballet. Her steady patronage at Covent Garden until her early death in 1817 provided more motivation to go to a performance as her presence in the royal …
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John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Association Keywords Debate Eloquence French Revolution Poetry Public sphere John Thelwall was born in Chandos Street in Covent Garden on 27 July 1764, the son of a silk mercer. After the death of his father, Joseph, in 1772, his mother Mary … theatrical performance as a means of political protest, attending a performance of Ottway’s play Vencie Preserv’d at Covent Garden on 1 February 1793, where he led a group of friends in cheering loudly and pointedly at a speech which …
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… sales relocated from the Royal Exchange and its networks of wharfs and warehouses to the artistic clusters of Soho and Covent Garden and later on flourished in the West End and Pall Mall, completing their transition from commercial venues to … artistic clusters developed dedicated rooms for these sales, such as Christopher Cock’s great rooms on the Great Piazza, Covent Garden , or the nearby Mr. Hutchins’ communicating rooms between Hart street and King Street. By the middle of the …
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The Play-bills, 1830 [ Practices ]
… Margaritta, introduced sweetly, "On the wings of morning," from Hoffer, which she sung very effectively. Mrs Weston, of Covent Garden, made her first appearance as the Countess, and gave excellent effect to the character.” How judiciously, in this …
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… arguments were seen as akin to Devil-worship. Wharton’s club thus became scandalous by default. Henry Fielding, in his Covent Garden Journal , later described the club members as a ‘set of infernal spirits’ and referred to literary accounts … Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2010), p. 50. 3 . Henry Fielding, The Covent Garden Journal, 11 Feb. 1752. The first known reference to the Hell-fire Club appears in Mist’s Weekly Journal on …
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… the century. During his first few years in the city, he offered lectures at several coffeehouses, including Button’s in Covent Garden , Douglas’s in St. Martin’s Lane, and the Marine near the Royal Exchange. The Huguenot refugee John Theophilus …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… political tensions with France; and the Half-Price riots of 1763, when audiences smashed up both Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres to protest what they perceived of as a change to ticketing policy and prices. 17 17 . The actor was Mr. … performances were usually limited to two per season, so as not to damage the theatre’s financial health. 21 Following Covent Garden Theatre’s lead in 1765, in 1766 Drury Lane also began staging an annual benefit for a fund for actors who …
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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… and then send her several British plays as well as a detailed catalogue of the shows staged at the Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres. As Riccoboni lost interest in writing novels, she sought inspiration in the plays from across the …
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… Having been refused aid by his father, Lord Milton, Damer shot himself in an upstairs room in the Bedford Arms in Covent Garden. Gambling is portrayed as the root of all ills in The Sylph as it promotes a form of anti-social sociability, as …
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