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Petersfield in Hampshire (and French prisoners of war in the 1790s) [ Law & Order ]
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
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The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… a Path-way , by common Treading , Nasty and Infertile, he ransacks their Wardrobe, strips them of their Plumes, and Discards ’em; who are forc’d to fly to some common Bawdy-House for Refuge, and walk the Streets for Subsistence; thus Sin … at last brings them to Repentance. The other part of his Life is Tricking People out of their Money by false Dice and Cards , which he handles with more gainful Dexterity than the German Artist ; and Preaches the Parson with such a …
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… vol II, p. 41. Assembly rooms typically had a few central rooms, including a ballroom, tearoom, and rooms for playing cards. Early definitions of ‘assemblies’ were very basic, expanding over the course of the century to designate …
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… to his neighbours by his refusal. Refusing all, he disobliged none. Indeed as neither he, nor his wife, played at cards, they conceived they might often be disagreable intruders. (Gilpin, Memoirs , 150) 6 . Rebecca Warner, Original …
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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… in his diary: ‘Went to Sr Horace's at 8 found the King of Sweden and all the company come and most of them playing at cards. We set down to a very fine supper about 12 o'clock very elegantly served up. Came home about 2.’ (Ramsay 145) A …
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