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Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… Owen Cambridge published a mock epic poem in 1751, The Scribleriad , in which the hero is Martinus Scriblerus, and Henry Fielding, who presented his play The Welsh Opera as a tribute to the Scriblerians, also used the pen name ‘Scriblerus …
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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… 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 satirized the Robin Hood Society. …
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… of writers, painters, singers and actors or actresses. Ralph Allen at Prior Park entertained literary figures such as Henry Fielding or Alexander Pope . The spa quite fits in with the definition given by Stella Tillyard, ‘celebrity was about …
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