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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… and conversational life in London. He loved the activities of intelligent society, and was instrumental in forming clubs for the opportunities to engage in them. He was aware of his intellectual superiority and had a tendency to seek to … several long-standing and loyal female friends. People > Art and Literature Keywords Celebrity Conversation Depression Clubs Fame Gender Unkempt, ungainly, uncouth, with appallingly gluttonous table manners, aggressively loud, rude and … stage in that company, relishing the performance as much as the genuine exchange of ideas.‘ In a period known for its ‘clubbability’ (and the word itself is Johnsonian), Johnson stood out as a clubbable man, and indeed as a great founder of …
Celebrity | Conversation | Depression | Clubs | Fame | Gender
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The Spectator, No. 324 (12 March 1712) [ People ]
… Mr. Spectator, The Materials you have collected together towards a general History of Clubs, make so bright a Part of your Speculations, that I think it is but a Justice we all owe the learned World to … that Species of Being) who have lately erected themselves into a Nocturnal Fraternity, under the Title of the Mohock Club, a Name borrowed it seems from a sort of Cannibals in India, who subsist by plundering and devouring all the Nations … But I beg you would recommend to their Perusal your Speculation: They may there be taught to take warning from the Club of Duellists; and be put in mind, that the common Fate of those Men of Honour was to be hang'd. I am, Sir, Your most …
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
Clubs | Enlightenment | France | Philosophy | Republic of Letters | Salons | Scotland | Societies
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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… Commons, 1731. Image frontispiece, after Hogarth, of Edward Ward, A Compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, Compil'd from the original papers of a gent., 1745 Abstract … decorous sociability was not one to which 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 … of the Bottle (London, 1720) Ward’s attention to sociability, however, is perhaps explicit in his Secret History of Clubs (1709). Peter Clark has shown that the decades after 1688 witnessed a ‘national expansion’ in clubs, as people …
Clubs | Humour | Impoliteness | Politics | Satire | Sex | Taverns
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… of society as a whole relied more and more on rising levels of literacy. Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Clubs Family Fiction Streets While reading might be seen as a solitary act of perception, contributing to the … The proliferation of various official or informal associations revolving around books (academies, circulating libraries, clubs, societies, etc.) running parallel to the intensively growing market (print, book-sellers), testifies to the rising … its effects more often than not resonated in sociable interactions, such as letter writing, coffee house discussions or club meetings. In some cases, the shared social aspect of reading was so strong that it easily dominated over the …
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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… the pubs and brothels of Covent Garden. The West End created centres of male association, particularly the gentleman's club, the coffee house and the casino whilst locations such as the King's Theatre on the Haymarket were places where … aristocrats could regulate entry to high society. Places > Cities Places > Institutions Keywords Aristocracy Consumption Clubs Elite Gambling Gender Opera ‘The West End of the Town‘ (as it was usually known in the long eighteenth century) … 5 They showed up for the aristocratic season and were the people to be seen with. Gentlemen began to pursue life in the clubs of St. James's. The first of the West End clubs was White's, founded in a chocolate house on St James's Street in …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… in the fact that it defined a form of sociability but was denounced as anti-social. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Clubs Duelling Gaming Gentleman Horseracing Suicide From the Restoration to the first decade of the Victorian era, gaming … those of the gentleman . Different private or public venues welcomed parties of gamesters, from exclusive gambling clubs or elite assemblies at private residences to popular city taverns or coffeehouses where various social classes … in cards and dice." The Connoisseur, n° 15. Gaming and gambling spread far beyond the confines of specialist gambling clubs like White’s or Brooks's or the more common card clubs. Virtually no type of society was exempt, whether they were …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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The Kit-Cats (1708) [ Practices ]
… Wits to their first Maxims true, Not of high Station, and in Number few, Did Wit's just Rights and Interests pursue." … Clubs … Poetry … Assemblies … Richard Blackmore, The Kit--cats. A Poem . E. Sanger and E. Curl, at the Post-House at the …
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Letter to The Chronicle (1762) [ Concepts ]
… is any real foundation for the report, that a grant is to be given of the green park for an edifice for the Dilettanti club. I was much concerned & alarmed to hear of an intention of taking from the public a place dedicated to health & … artists are to be encouraged? Can such a compliment be made to the Dilettanti & refused to the English beef stake club? No, Old England, will assert the rights & honour of its beef, and another noble Edifice must be erected for the … the chaste & delicate ear of the Q—n? It may be said that a place nearest the Royal House will be assign’d to the Virtue Club, in which the unhallow’d sounds of the beef stake club will be silenced & expire. That would indeed be well, but …
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